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Hi,
Suppose there are two clips, one clip is a still photo (nightclub bar) used as background and the other clip is a person playing sax that is extracted from a video with green background.
We need to zoom in/out during sax play to make the video vivid. The question is how we can syncronize both background clip and front person clip when zoom in/out? This is necessary to make the final production video look real (i.e. a person really play sax in nighclub bar).
We can zoom in/out both clips independently but it's hard to make them coordinate 100% during both clips zoom in/out, which makes the final product video looks bad.
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The simple answer is No. I basically answered this question in your other post. You will need to split the clip to change masks.
FYI you can't directly paste pictures directly in the text box. You either need to upload them to an image sharing site like Imgur and then generate and paste BBC code in your reply, or use the Attachments button below the forum's text box to upload them here directly.
Thanks for the information. Sorry, I forgot attached the screenshot but I attached it now to my original post above now.
It's understood now that we can only use one pre-defined mask shape for the entire clip. One thing to make sure... it seems we can only pan the mask around at different keyframes, but cannot use different sizes of the same mask at different keyframes. If we change mask size at one keyframe, mask size at all other keyframes will be changed too. Is it what we expect?
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Can we use different pre-defined mask shapes at different keyframes?
Attached screenshot has 3 keyframes (inside red circle). Can we use different pre-defined mask shapes at different keyframes? Say, rectungular mask at the 1st keyframe, star mask at the 2nd keyframe, and heart mask for the 3rd one.
I tried but it seems only one mask shape can be used for all keyframes.
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Thanks, Tomasc.
Select the video clip on your timeline and select Crop/Zoom/Pan from the Tools menu to open this tool.
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Thank you for the information. It helps.
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Thank you for your help. Much appreciate!
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By "mask keyframes", do you mean the feature showed in the attached video clip?
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Thank you for the information. It perfectly works for what I need.
I created a mask with "Create a customer selection mask" function (see mask1.jpg). mask2.jpg shows the final effect, which corrects the problem I had before.
One more question on mask... would it be possible to apply a mask to only a section of video (instead of apply mask to the whole video)? The reason for this question is that object in the video may move a bit, so a mask fits one section of the video may not fit the rest sections.
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You are right that for photos you use the Crop/Zoom/Pan tool. But what I'm looking for is the same or similar tool for video.
Does PD 19 Ultimate provide Pan & Zoom tool for videos like it does for photos? For example, zoom in from 0 sec to 30 sec of the video, and zoom out from 31 sec to 50 sec, etc.
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Hi,
Can PD 19 Ultimate crop video with user defined shape? Instead of getting a rectangular shape, I need to crop a video to the shape like the attached screenshot (uneven.jpg)
The reason I need such shape becasue we need to add a person (who is extracted from a video with green background by using PD 19 Chroma Key tool) into a picture. There is a coffee table in this picture, when adding that person behind the coffee table, the bottom of the extacted person cuts in the table (see green circle in the attached screenshot table_leg.jpg). We can fix this problem if we can crop video to make its bottom tilt.
Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Lee
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Hi,
I have been using PD 19's Pan & Zoom function with photos. It works fine and provides attractive apperances for photos. Does PD 19 Ultimate offer the same or similar pan and zoom function for videos? For example, like User Defined Pan & Zoom for photos, we zoom in for one section of the video, zoom out for another section of the same video, show different areas in different sections of the video, etc.
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Thanks for the info.
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If you want to make people look prettier, try alcohol...later in the evening can be helpful...
Thanks for the info but it's too late to take alchole as I need to edit existing videos.
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Too bad PD 19 Ultimate users cannot get this plug in for free. Otherwise, I could give it a try.
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Does PowerDirector 19 Ultimate have functionality that can be used to adjust video to make people look prettier (such as smooth skin, dark grey hairs, look younger, etc.)?
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Yes, the hot keys "." and "," move cursor properly.
Your informaiton also solves another puzzle I wonder for long time, i.e. what the last two-digits are for on timeline and preview windows, which is 30-carry. Now I know that's the number of frames. 1 second has 30 frames  Thank you.
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Nice to know. Thanks.
I zoom in max as shown in the attached screenshot. It seems the smallest scale on timeline is one frame. If I split clip from the red cursor, tow frames will be removed, correct?
Not sure if PD19 has hot key to move red cursor a frame. Hot keys "Alt + ->" or "Alt + <-" can move selected clip a frame, but not the red cursor.
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Yes, you are right. That's the cause. It's working now. Thanks!
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One more question on split if you don't mind...
When I select some clip, the split icon is disabled (greyed out). Why and how to make it enabled? Please see 2 screenshots attached, one shows split icon is enabled, the other one shows it's disabled. Both clips are trimmed from original video (but differnt ones).
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Thanks! Very helpful information.
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