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My idea is to get a free disort of my video to place this video in a still picuture. (picture of guitar with the movie of the guitarist in it).

Is this technically possible in PowerDirector 11 or higher versions ?

Or do I need to buy a plug-in ?

Which plug-ins exists (like new blue FX)?

You can do it with PD11. See the attached.

1. Place the still pic say in track 1.


2. Place the video in track 2 where you want it to start. Highlight it and open PiP designer.


3. Resize the video and place it where you want say in the bottom right in the example. Uncheck maintain aspect ratio and distort it the way you want as shown in the example. You can also use a mask for a distorted image if you want.

Let us know if this helps.

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My idea is to get a free disort of my video to place this video in a still picuture. (picture of guitar with the movie of the guitarist in it).

Is this technically possible in PowerDirector 11 or higher versions ?

Or do I need to buy a plug-in ?

Which plug-ins exists (like new blue FX)?

You can do it with PD11. See the attached.

1. Place the still pic say in track 1.


2. Place the video in track 2 where you want it to start. Highlight it and open PiP designer.


3. Resize the video and place it where you want say in the bottom right in the example. Uncheck maintain aspect ratio and distort it the way you want as shown in the example. You can also use a mask for a distorted image if you want.

Let us know if this helps.

If you want to use a guitar, copy an image from google and save it as a .png. Remove the guitar section and place it in track two, with the group video in track one.

The picture is a very rough idea of a mask you can make. Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Hi paiceashtonlord#123 -

To add a little to The Shadowman's idea... once you have your guitar image isolted with a transparent area, you can apply that directly to your guitarist video as a Mask.

1. Select the clip & click Modify


2. In PiP Designer go the the Mask tab


3. Click Create Mask - import the guitar image

... and you have your guitarist video in the shape of a guitar. Another video/image can play in the background, as shown in the attached screenshot.

Cheers - Tony
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Thank you all for your advices and examples. I will work on this to figure out the principles of this new work method and will let you know how i work it out.



Thanks!

PAL

As promised I take some time to experiment with all the tips you gave to me.

And it worked quite well. See example.

The dificulty for me was to find a good video part with the guitarist in the right part of the video (left side) and also in the right size as this was limited to the guitar mask.



I create a PNG file of the guitar.

Placed it on video line 2, chroma key on the white color.

Placed the video on line 1 and ad the same picture of the guitar as a mask on video line 1

Placing that on the correct positions to get a good overlay on the tracks.



Many thanks again - and you will see this probably soon on my YT channel - paiceashtonlord.



PAL