I do not know what you mean by

If I apply a transition to a clip or image, the transition is not centered
relative to the clip. It's always anchored to the center of the entire video instead.

I have applied two separate transitions to separate images/clips. I have included the pds file. (it may work for you)

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PDR is workspace oriented i.e. say you have a 16:9 project, then everything you put on the timeline is maximised and centred to the full workspace. To do what you want, I would split it into stages and prepare each of the components separately then put the whole thing together. By doing this your wipes/fades would be centred on each component and not on the background. Difficult to put into words but the attachment may show what I mean. I created the two videos separately and then dropped them onto the background and re-sized them.

Hi Prizm -

Longedge is onto it again!

What you've come across is a long standing "glitch" (for want of a better word) that makes some transitions act on the whole screen, rather than on a resized PiP element. If you'd used a simple fade, for example, the issue wouldn't occur.

In this thread, you'll find some demo videos and a PDF file listing all the culprit transitions.

What you're getting is shown in the top pic below, with both transitions centred on the red dot (i.e. centre of screen).

What you're after (as Longedge posted) is for the transition to act only on the PiP element, shown in the bottom pic below. With those transitions, that can only be achieved by pre-producing.



Cheers - Tony

Whoops! FAKE NEWS ALERT! I've just noticed the PDF file in that other thread is not completely true for PDR15. That's probably related to the slightly different transparency behaviour in PDR15 compared to previous versions.
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Hi Prizm -

I was a bit off the mark with my previous post. I linked to a thread where the concern was that the transition affected not only the PiP element, but the background.

Your question was about the transition not being centred on the PiP element. Many of the transitions in PDR are based on a central axis (e.g. Worm Hole). If the PiP element is placed in the centre of the screen, no problem. If it's placed off-centre, as yours are, the transition is not centred on the element, because it's acting on the whole screen.



The attached (updated for PDR15, just before PDR16 is released) PDF explains further.

Cheers - Tony
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Thanks for all the replies! I wouldn't want to create a separate video for each PIP transition... too much hassle and you'd lose quality by rendering, importing, then rendering again (and you'd lose transparency). Sounds like it's just one of those quirks.

thanks

I don't know how much hassle it would be, that's a personal decision but quality shouldn't suffer and transparency could be applied by chroma keying.

I'm an inveterate d.i.y'er and never think to use presets & templates. If there's a problem or I don't immediately see how something can be done, I do like to break it down into manageable chunks but this does lead me to miss the native solutions sometimes. I always think that there is not only one way to achieve what you're after.