Creating GC for news editing with PD9

PaulaFreitas

Newbie Joined: Mar 31, 2011 06:24 Messages: 2 Offline

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Mar 31, 2011 06:44

Hi there!

I am completely new to video editing and started this week with Power Director 9 after reading very good reviews about it.

Found out lots of things already (and I will have so much more to find yet!) but haven't found yet how to put GC (generator character) when editing news. I want to give credits (name on the top, profession on the bottom) of who I am interviewing but I don't know how to do that on PD9.

Can someone help?

Many thanks,

Paula

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Mar 31, 2011 07:16

Hi Paula -

From what I understand of your question, you'd do that in Title Designer. Have you tried adding titles in the Title Room yet?

Title Designer functions pretty much as it did in PD8, so any of the relevant tutorials you find for PD8 will help...

http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots

http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/tutorial/

Cheers - Tony (yes ynotfish77)

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Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 31, 2011 09:00

Hi PaulaFreitas ,

PD9 Titles are different from PD8 (PD8 titles were confined to one title track). In PD9 the Titles can be placed in any of the video/graphics track. This is a really excellent improvement and utilises the graphic track dominance (highest numbered track) to make the Title an overlay or be dominated by another graphic.

For example: A "news ticker" title running along the screen bottom, as in TV broadcasts, can now be made to disappear behind a video or graphic much easier than in PD8.

Hope the additional info helps.
Dafydd

Pax 123

Senior Member Location: Miami, Florida Joined: Feb 25, 2010 06:35 Messages: 282 Offline

Mar 31, 2011 16:33

Hi Paula,

There is a template (see attachment) in Director Zone, which you can download for free. It has 97 examples of use.

Welcome to the forum.

Pax


Filename	NEWS.png	Download
Description	News ticker
Filesize	733 Kbytes
Downloaded:	121 time(s)

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PaulaFreitas

Newbie Joined: Mar 31, 2011 06:24 Messages: 2 Offline

Apr 01, 2011 09:22

Hi guys,

Thanks very much for all of you for your help!!

Yesterday I was a bit stuck in work and could not try the tips yet! The weekend will be here soon and let's do some homework!! I will let you know what will happen!

Cheers,

Paula