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Since you guys are being so helpful, a bonus question...
If I set an image clip to have a "Slide" transition in, a "Fade" transition out, a border, etc.... is it possibly to quickly apply these same attributes to all other images? I can see only "Copy Keyframe Attributes", but maybe there's a trick I'm missing.
Thanks again!
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I want to achieve an effect where a title will say "2019", then over the course of a few seconds, rapidly spin back to 1986.
I'm a complete novice with this tool, only started at the weekend, but I had a bash... I tried creating loads and loads of individual Title clips, each with "2019", "2018", "2017"... and so on, and thought I might find a transition effect that would do it. I quickly lost the will to live doing it that way though.
I found an animated clock in one of the bundled libraries, but I couldn't figure out how to make it spin backwards (seems there wasn't a "reverse" option on it).
I need to give the viewer the feeling of zipping back in time.
Can anyone help me with the effect I mentioned there, or something else I could do to visualise the transition from 2019 to 1986?
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@optodata
I see what you mean, that's a neat trick. One thing I failed to mention though.... some of the images that get thrown on onto the screen are actually videos (it's a pretty cool effect, to have polaroid-like pictures coming down, and some of them are actually videos). This causes me some headaches with the freeze-frame trick. I learnt something new anyway though, thanks for that!
@BarryTheCrab
The "Slide" transition effect is really close to the effect I had already with keyframes! 80% as good with 20% of the time taken. I'll go with that, thanks!
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I am working on a video where a lot of images will be thrown down onto the screen, as if someone was throwing down real poloroid photographs.
To achieve this I do the following to each picture:
- Initial position somewhere off the screen
- A keyframe at 2secs to set the position + rotation into the desired position on screen
- Set "ease in" to "1.0" on the position + rotation attributes to give it a more realistic look
This works fine. However, I frequently need to adjust the length of time a picture stays on screen, to match some voice narration. Whenever I change a picture's clip length (usually by chopping it at the end), or do certain time-based manipulations to a picture, it totally screws up the keyframes.
If I chop the picture's clip length in half, the keyframe animation will also be chopped to happening in 1s - effectively sped up.
Or, if I extend the picture's clip length, the keyframe animation will be dragged out.
It also seems to drop the "ease in" attribute all the time too and I need to keep setting it again.
Is there a way to set a static/absolute keyframe on a clip, so that it will always happen at 2s regardless of any manipulations done to the clip afterwards?
The way I'm working now, I have to spend 20 minutes fixing all the keyframes every time I make a time adjustment to something.
Thanks a lot!
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There are a number of recent posts about PD's inability to work with several Asian fonts, which is somewhat ironic since Cyberlink is a Taiwanese company. Please see this post, and especially the link in my post there for possible workarounds.
You should also use Rate Us & Provide Suggestions from PD's File menu to request broader text support in future editions.
Thanks for the response!
I found the solution, so I thought I should post it in case anyone else has the issue.
I couldn't find anything by Googling in English, but Googling in Thai takes you to some solutions.
If you install the font "TH Sarabun New" (I got it from f0nt.com), you can use it to render the text correctly. In Windows, it's just a case of running the font file and it gives the option to install it. Then restart PowerDirector and start to use "TH Sarabun" in all titles/subtitles.
Maybe there's a similar solution for other languages that are affected, like Hindi.
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I can't get Thai text to render properly, either as a Title or as Subtitles.
This is what should be rendered:
ยินดีต้อนรับ
This is what is actually rendered:
ยิ นดี ต้ อนรั บ
There is a space inserted whenever a special character is used that should go on top of a character.
Can you please suggest how I can fix this?
Thanks
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