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PiP Media Content and Snapping
Tesityr
Senior Member Location: Canada, eh Joined: Apr 08, 2014 05:35 Messages: 154 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 00:47
Two questions, both relating to the PiP tool/section:

1) If I add/create a PiP content (eg. a watermark), does it create a copy of the original media somewhere? I ask this because, if I change around drive letters, or delete/move the original media used to create the PiP object, will I lose the ability to use that PiP creation, then?

2) I am moving objects on the main preview window (PiP objects, etc), they seem to be snapping to edges and similar locations, which is good - however, if I wish to disable that temporarily, where do I go to do so? I can't seem to readily find that information, even after some searching and watching some tutorials (noone so far has talked about disabling the snapping mechanism).

Thanks!
Cranston
Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 01:21
Quote: if I wish to disable that temporarily, where do I go to do so?

Hi TfTGTAMB,

If I’m reading your question correctly, perhaps this image may help.



[Thumb - PIP SnapTo.png]
 Filename
PIP SnapTo.png
[Disk]
 Description
 Filesize
363 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
292 time(s)

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Tesityr
Senior Member Location: Canada, eh Joined: Apr 08, 2014 05:35 Messages: 154 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 01:44
Quote:
Quote: if I wish to disable that temporarily, where do I go to do so?

Hi TfTGTAMB,

If I’m reading your question correctly, perhaps this image may help.





That's it, THANK YOU!

I actually 'just' found a post this same minute by - I believe it was Ynotfish or Dafydd [I kept looking around more] - about the PiP instructions (thanks to them too!); but the function of turning off Snapping in the Main Preview window doesn't seem to be there... Ah well, one more for the Suggestion Thread someone started - and thanks again for this, Cranston - if you know about how PD12 handles the PiP media content (for Question #1), lemme know
Cranston
Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 01:53
Quote: [but the function of turning off Snapping in the Main Preview window doesn't seem to be there.

Its here in this drop down menu.

[Thumb - PIP SnapTo002.png]
 Filename
PIP SnapTo002.png
[Disk]
 Description
 Filesize
116 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
275 time(s)

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Tesityr
Senior Member Location: Canada, eh Joined: Apr 08, 2014 05:35 Messages: 154 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 02:00
Quote:
Quote: [but the function of turning off Snapping in the Main Preview window doesn't seem to be there.

Its here...



Hah, that's great!

I saw that icon but thought it was a Full Screen Preview or something, due to how it looks... and now I see if I mouse over it, it says "Options"

Thank you once again!
JL_JL [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 08:19
Quote: 1) If I add/create a PiP content (eg. a watermark), does it create a copy of the original media somewhere? I ask this because, if I change around drive letters, or delete/move the original media used to create the PiP object, will I lose the ability to use that PiP creation, then?

If you use "Save As" in PIP Designer so it saves the PIP template to disc it should put copies of the pertinent files in your USERPROFILE setting, might be C:, D:, or .. depending how you configured your system and who you are logged in as. So PD PIP location is:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\12.0\MyPinPs.

In a CMD window, type echo %USERPROFILE% to find yours.

C:\>echo %USERPROFILE%
d:\Users\Jeff

C:\>

Jeff
Tesityr
Senior Member Location: Canada, eh Joined: Apr 08, 2014 05:35 Messages: 154 Offline
[Post New] Apr 20, 2014 16:12
Quote:
Quote: 1) If I add/create a PiP content (eg. a watermark), does it create a copy of the original media somewhere? I ask this because, if I change around drive letters, or delete/move the original media used to create the PiP object, will I lose the ability to use that PiP creation, then?

If you use "Save As" in PIP Designer so it saves the PIP template to disc it should put copies of the pertinent files in your USERPROFILE setting, might be C:, D:, or .. depending how you configured your system and who you are logged in as. So PD PIP location is:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\12.0\MyPinPs.

In a CMD window, type echo %USERPROFILE% to find yours.

C:\>echo %USERPROFILE%
d:\Users\Jeff

C:\>

Jeff


Awesome, thank you - I'm glad to see that it creates copies of the 'originals'. Now, I just have to remember [which will probably not happen] to Backup the MyDocuments folders, the next time that I "redo" Windows
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