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I do not seem able to reproduce what you see happening.
I can however accomplish what it you want (as far as I understand), by doing what I described in option 2:
Move the image to track 1
Move the yellow board to track 2
Change the board such that it leaves the required space or frame for the image in track 1
Move the title in the title track such that it sits needly in the yellow part
Open the PIP designer for the image
Move the time pointer (by lack of a better word), to the end of the image display
Now change the position of the image such that the desired centre of the image that should display zoomed in the final result in the centre of the frame as left by the yellow board.
Close the PIP disgner
Open the P&Z designer and also move the time pointer of the image to the end of the image display and set a keyframe, and the position the image such that it displays zoomed as required.
(You may have to repeat the PIP en P&Z steps until you are happy with the result)
The trick is, since you want to maintain the frame for the image as set by the yellow board to have the image in track 1 and the board in track 2
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David,
What I understand is that you want the yellow board and the text to be visible at the place on the photo, AND you want the image on the right being “moved” by applying a Pan&Zoom?
There are several ways to get this done, but what I don’t understand is, that you get the result that everything is moving not only the image?
I wonder HOW you apply the filter, because it is only with trickery (or maybe effects from the effect room; if that is what you used, then please look below to see ho you can make it work...) that I can have both image, board and text moved. So please let us know.
The methods that work in my environment are:
- Setup the timeline as you showed in the picture. The APPLICATION of the filter (I don’t know how you do it), is simple: Select the image; select within the TOOLS menu in the bar above the TL, Pan&Zoom; Select whatever movement you want from the selection screen; and open the motion designer. Well, notice that the P&Z usually works on parts of the image, so within the image boundaries. If you want the image and the board and the text to be visible, you have to make the P&Z selection very, very large. Best to set the size to 25% or 10% (rather than fit), Use the preview screen on the right to see the result and use the Keyframes as usual to define the movement. This will allow you to show some movement in the image. Note that as soon as you define P&Z within the image boundaries, the image will display and overlay the yellow board and the text, because the image (as you say) is in an overlay lane in the TL. Again. I don’t see any movement in the text or in the board, so maybe you apply a different P&Z filter??
- The second option is to change the things around and let the image sit in lane no 1, and the yellow board in 2…. Apply the P&Z to the image as described above, and with the PIP designer change the size and position of the color board where you want it. Again, you may want to play around with the image position to make it visible besides the board.
- The third option may be the obvious choice for many: Use the title facility to display text and color before the image. You can make the image move as described, and you can define the text with surrounding color with the title designer. You can use the backdrop option within titles to set the color behind the title, and you may have to play a bit with the width and height and even have to add spaces and returns before and/or after the title to make the color backdrop filling the screen as in your picture. But it can be done. And may give you a bit more flexibility to get nice results.
There may also be the option to use the PIP designer for the image and do some settings with keyframes.
Let me know if that works for you.
Warry
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It may be your settings, but even then SOMETHING should happen.
About the settings: in the Editing tab your will find some settings for the behavior of the fading, cross fading etc. If not, I suggest that you try the options a see what happens.
After you have dragged a transition into its place, you have some options to change the behavior too, click on modify and change the settings to see whether that makes a difference.
If not, then it would be good to tell us a bit more about your environment. Which version of PD, what kind of video files, what are the settings of your project, that kind of information.
Also did you try a transition in isolation, e.g. new project and just two video files? Still nothing happens?
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Today I have installed the latest version of PD. I like to make to following remarks on this new release:
- Love the Shutterstock availability. It will no doubt be benecitial for me future projects.
- What I don't like is that this Shutterstock icon seems to appear in the media room of all and every of my projects. Can it not be concealed somewhere ready to call? OKay I disappears when I select video-only or images-only or music-only, but I have a mixture of all these most of the times. Can we have a button, please Cyberlink, or is it already there and did I not discover it yet?
- Obviously I have tried some downloads, and I am impressed with how it works. However a number of the downloads (but not all) end with the message that an error occurred while opening the media file. I see that these error-files are still sitting in the Shutterstock download folder, as a subsequent message that the download was succesfull shows. PD does not load them.
- What I would like is to know in advance what the size of the Shutterstock download is. Am I downloading 50 or 500Mb, (which might be an indication of the quality too?)
- The files that DID successfully download and add to the media room, do not show strangely enough when I select "downloaded", although of course they are.
- In the PIP-designer What strikes me is that the first time I press on play the screen goes black for a very short moment before the playing is started. The subsequent plays go without the black...
I have forwarded these remarks through "provide suggestions" too.
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In the Create Disk tab, select 2D disk and then
in the select video encoding format and quality click
on the right option to reveal
Smart Fit, and select that.
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For what I understand your question is:
you have a video with its own (inferior) audio and you have a separate audio file with the same recording but much better audio. And you want to replace the audio from the video by the separately recorder audio.
PD indeed cannot have both two separate audio tracks and the video in the same track on the timeline. But you have a stand alone audio track in another track. What you do is this:
- Put the video with its original audio on track 1
- Put the separate audio file on track 2
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[list]Select both tracks so that the video in track 1 and the audio in track 2 turn blue to indicate selected.
- You will notice that in the menu line right above the timeline the option appears: Sync by Audio. This is of course the thing to do, because you still want the audio to match the video.
- If all is well, PD recognizes that the audio of the video and the separate audio are the same. PD will shift the video and audio files such that the audio of both are in sync.
- when you preview the video you will be able to check whether that is the case.
- if you want to make sure that for all subsequent steps audio and video remain the same, then cut off any beginning and end pieces in both the video (1) and audio (2) track, WITHOUT moving or shifting them, so e.g. delete and leave the gap.
- Now you want to switch off the audio from the video in track 1. There are two options:
- The easy way is to unselect the audio in track 1. Try to preview again and the audio from track 2 plays with the video of track 2
- The other option is to right click on the video and select “unlink video and audio”.
- You can now click on the audio track that will turn blue with the video turning blue, and delete the audio.
- You might go as far as to move the audio from track 2 to the audio in track 1, but the chances are high that the audio becomes out of sync again. So better leave it in track 2.
There is also the option to use the multi cam designer, but that is the better option if you have more than 1 video file of the same along with the audio file.
I always go for the first option and leave the audio where it is for later reference. With the audio disabled, it will not be in the way, when producing the video.
also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4EBEWqwQwY
Have fun!
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Also have a look at this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQsWYkUrhM
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I have digitaliseert many 8mm movies and where possible made them 16:9.
you have to realize that in many cases you have to make a choice what part of the original movie you want to keep and show.
in many cases it is making a compromise. There are cases in which it is better to leave the original format as it is.
You can use crop and zoom and framing to make your pictures 16:9. What I usually do is cut the video into scenes. Scenes that more or less require the same cropping. For each of the scenes you apply (in tools) crop and zoom. Set the format to 16:9. Also do that for the whole project! And select the part of the scene that you want to show. You can in de zoom screen see the result in the top right hand corner, but that is a very small. So press OK and preview the cropped scene from the timeline, and open crop and zoom to correct.
In a number of cases you may want to move within the scene from one part of the picture to another part. In that case use the setting of frames within the scene. It may take some experimenting and some experience, but the result may be rewarding because it lookes like the camera is moving its focus at the time of shooting! PD will take care of the smooth movements between the set frames.
There are some good tutorials in YouTube that will help you!
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Note: HD and 4K quality is possible!
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5 mins of black space. That should not happen and has never happened to me.
please check your timeline, by making sure that there are no video or other elements beyond the targeted end of your production, by skipping to the timeline project end by pressing the END-key. We have seen that fragments may have been left behind...
the escape to this ordeal would be to produce a segment or section by using the yellow markers...
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Maybe look at WHERE the file is about to be stored. Is the other file there too, and maybe the lot?
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I see what you mean. We talk about different problems. Thanks
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After your post I have tried the same, and this happens in my system too. Black video, but sound is OK. Mind you I apply the effect to the whole video.
When I move the video with the effect to the first line, the black remains. After I have removed the effect, the video returns, but PD keeps rendering a couple of seconds from the cursor. PD keeps doing this even when I have removed the video and replaced the same. This is over when I restart PD and move the (same) video to the timeline. Then it plays (and shows) without rendering.
When I move the effect to the effect line right under the first timeline, with the video in lane 1, the effect of the effect is shown as expected, but rendering happens. Even after I have removed the effect from the effect line. And even when I have removed and replaced the video in the timeline without effect: rendering...
Something we may want to pass on to Cyberlink, when more of you see the same thing.
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Removing whole buildings takes a different approach than a very small item. The other day I managed to disguise a logo at the bottom right by adding the Blur effect (from the effect room) and masking that so that it sat on top of the logo, play a bit with the effect settings to get the right gradient etc. It is the quick a dirty approach that is also often used on TV to hide logo's when re-broadcasting footage.
But there are many other ways, as Optodata says, maybe best to show us what it is you want to remove.😊
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OK. Snapshots are of course a temporary solution. Titles should go as expected. The other option would be using Titler Pro 1.5 plugin. Also has a lot of options, but one has to get the hang of it, and it takes more time to get where you want to be.
B.t.w. when I make the title black and give it a white border, I still get the strange and unexpected starting effect.....
Support ticket: CS002154971
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Where is that blank in the output? At the end? It is most likely that there are some remains, small cuts or even frames (far) beyond the end of the projected movie? Maybe press end, to go to the place that PD sees as the end of the stuff to be produced. Maybe enlarge the timeline so that you can more easy spot the frames?
And if that does not help, you might want to select that movie in your timeline by setting the little yellow begin and end markers and produce the selection only....
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I think that much of that stuff can be done with the 365 suite, but not everything. Although maybe not so clever and/or sophisticated as with the more expensive software. I think that it is either pay more, if you need features or don't have the time to sort out ways, like in a professional environment, or try to see whether you can make it work with the suite.
So far I was able to do whatever I wanted to do. And indeed there are many good tutorials out there that helped me out. And this forum!
I have a few channels I use for family and friends videos and with very limited audience. Repairing and digitizing analog movies and the sort.
So, have fun with the suite ![]()
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Please tell us what it is you are looking for.
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Indeed. And it is clever software too. I have looked at the underlying files. Building software to create and generate these files is not trivial and there is the possibility that its changes in the next version. Maybe good to ask CyberLink to please make the software available or better, build in creation of collage templates from scratch. After all, apparently they have done the trick already:![]()
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I could not find any references to building collages from scratch too. It looks like we have to work within the 2 to 7 shapes range that are available, and change them to our needs. Something with the next version wish list?!
I wonder what kind of collage you want to create?
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Good show, Ray!
From time to time, PD amazes me when I find out of yet another feature. It has helped me to look at this forum, but also at the good tutorials.
I also sometime read the manual, in which most of the goodies are mentioned. But it is more fun to work with PD itself and to look at tutorials.
Have fun.
Warry
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