Quote As someone who makes videos of golf instruction this is a serious shortcoming and seems like a no brainer. I mean, you can't draw a straight line?

As far as I know the drawing of a straight line has never been fixed.

However, a tutorial was made a long time ago on how to mask the line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUsQvOpbso

. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

I'd have to agree with you LDW, even though one might argue that not many users would need/want to draw lines on their videos.

The workaround shown in the tutorial Carl linked works very well, but it does involve quite a few steps.

I just tried to put it into a golf context... and - well - the result's about as good as my putting! The timeline looks like this:



So - it's a fair bit of mucking around when all you get is something like:



Cheers - Tony
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Thanks guys for taking the time to offer some ideas. I will try this out to see if it will suffice. Have a great day!

Quote Thanks guys for taking the time to offer some ideas. I will try this out to see if it will suffice. Have a great day!

There is one thing I did not mention, if you have a Drawing pad/tablet, you can draw some nice straight lines if you use drawing assist tools. (a ruler).

A drawing pad does much better than a mouse for drawing lines.

If you really want to go off the deep end of tools, a CAD program with jpeg or png export is great for making graphic images.

The free image editor Paint.net does great line drawing, It does have commands for drawing straight lines, curves and rectangles (shapes). Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.