Hi RipGroove,
As I do a lot of work in both the Effects Room and PIP Designer, I think I am understanding what you are saying here.
However, adding the Blur option to PIP Designer, is probably not the best solution. Remember the old PiP Desginer?
PowerDirector is, and always has been, a work in progress. And the latest PD11’s functionality and UI, is by far the best PD version so far.
But in PD11 just as in PD10, in the Effects room (when one is wanting to create a Censor Blur that can be tracked via key frames), one still has the limitation of having a Mask Preview window that is tiny. Thus making precise placements and adjustments very difficult.
So instead of moving the censor blur option to another module in PD, the best solution (as far I see it), is to improve the Effects Room module itself.
Every room’s secondary preview screen and functions should be viewable at 100%.
Cyberlink has made great strides is this area in PD11 (e.g. the PIP Designer and Paint Designer rooms). Hopefully these same changes will be made to the UI in the Effects Room, and it’s “Mask” window, via an update or in the next new release.
This has been mentioned in the past, and hopefully some of these suggestions such as you have pointed out (which have been brought up previously), will bear fruit.
It is sometimes a bit frustrating, as member suggestions do sometimes seem to take quite a long time to be implemented. But CL does listen, and they have acted and made member suggested changes to PD in the past.
But again, for purposes of tracking Effects, the tiny Mask preview window is simply too small. And one wonders why this has not already been addressed.
It’s the same with creating a moving “effects” Highlight. That same small window makes precision tracking difficult. So please CL, again we ask… Give us a bigger preview for easier placement.
By way of example, please see. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxf5e6Ry9_o (03:16 to 05:54) to see the issue.
Be it a Highlight effect, or Blur effect, the method/principle for animating/tracking, is exactly the same. Yet it’s quite hampered by the tiny Mask preview screen.
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