Working with PiP

RonH

Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline

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Jun 26, 2012 04:22

Still learning

As a 'training' experiment, I have opened a short video which I want to modify. Its some monkey's dancing (yep, stupid I know!) and I want to change one of the faces. I can see that I can, frame by frame', overlay and position another face by using a still picture and inserting multiple copies of it on the Timeline ... the length of the still matching the length of the frame. But this takes ages, inserting and correctly positioning.

Is there a quicker method?

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Cranston

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Jun 26, 2012 07:00

Quote: ...by using a still picture and inserting multiple copies of it on the Timeline ...

Hi RonH,

Giving motion to an Overlay, can indeed be a bit time consuming. But you don’t necessarily need to use, or generate, multiple copies of the Overlay to give it a Motion Path in PIP Designer.

The sequence (between 01:33 -to- 03:16), shown in the tutorial linked below, may help.
Just imagine that the orange circle is the face Overlay that you want to apply. And the football player as being the Monkey you described
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxf5e6Ry9_o

And this Motion Path basics tutorial may help as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gPt7y6ipo0
(Note: It was created in PD8, but the same principle applies to PD10.)

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RonH

Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline

Jun 26, 2012 12:48

Thanks for these links Cranston ... will experiment some more.
Ron

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CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"