Creating a slideshow using effects and Pip Tracks

purplesunlite

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Aug 09, 2009 00:21

I saw this really nice slideshow here: http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/video/540

I'm new at PowerDirector. I have been trying to figure out how it was done especially the first part with the one image in the master track and the displaying the other images from the Pip track. Were the pictures that were put on the Pip custom made? Am I correct to assume that you have to be able to use a tool outside of PowerDirector to do something like?

Can someone tell me how that was done?

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Aug 09, 2009 00:42

Depends a little on how consistent the background color of the pictures was. It looks like in this case they used like Photoshop magic extractor feature as you can see a hard edge on some of the pics. They extracted the pics and put them on a transparent background.
What you can do entirely in PD though is use the chroma key feature in the PIP to remove the background of the pictures. Play around with the feature. Look at http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3523.page for a chroma key effect video demo. After that they used a simple fade in and out features.

Jeff

purplesunlite

Newbie Joined: Jul 24, 2009 07:08 Messages: 9 Offline

Aug 09, 2009 15:54

Thanks for the posting that was helpful. I figured everything out except the fade in and fade out feature. Is that part of the modifications in the pip editor?

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Aug 09, 2009 16:16

In the PIP Designer, on the motion tab is the fade in and fade out check area. You control the behaviour with key frames.

Jeff

William

Newbie Joined: Aug 09, 2009 20:40 Messages: 2 Offline

Aug 10, 2009 22:42

You could try Veritus fluid mask for working with still images it's quite expensive but try demo.

billi