To my knowledge, Cyberlink hasn't ever published those specs.

However, intrepid forum user GodfreyZA has figured out how to create many kinds of PD objects with his free PDTemplatePacker app. He also has many helpful threads here on the forum, such as this one. Hopefully you'll be able to create your desired content with his tools!

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Hi Martin -

I agree with optodata - if anyone could "program" such a thing, or turn it into a modifiable template, it would be Godfrey.

I wouldn't have a clue about "programming" but it's pretty easy to use the features in PDR to efficiently get what you want.

By first setting position & scale keyframes for one image/video, those keyframe attributes can be copied and pasted to other media (assuming aspect ratio & duration are the same). Once pasted they can be modified to suit.

Each path can be saved as a custom path & each PiP element can be saved as a template for later use.

Some examples are shown here. I started with one zoom & pan path &, by copying & pasting keyframe attributes then modifying, fairly quickly turned that into 6 variants.



The images (20 sec duration) in the video are 3840x2160 & zoomed to 1920x1080. The paths are all on DirectorZone for download:
Zoom Pan 1 - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476100
Zoom Pan 1 (ease) - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476101
Zoom Pan 2 - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476102
Zoom Pan 2 (ease) - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476103
Zoom Pan 3 - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476104
Zoom Pan 3 (ease) - https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176476105

Cheers - Tony
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Thank you both very much for taking the time to consider this.

I'm reasonably happy with setting keyframe position/zooms for each clip, but this is a pain to do for lots of small clips. What I'd like to do is something like the attached - there is this zoom effect and you can use it across a collection of clips, but it doesn't have a pan/position setting. You can get an 'auto pan' from the newblue collection but it doesn't seem very controllable.



So it's possible but I can't see if anyone's actually done it. I shall ask Godfrey but if you have any ideas they'd be very welcome. I'm currently editing keyframes and then copying them across clips but it's a pain to do and a real pain to change.

Quote I'm currently editing keyframes and then copying them across clips but it's a pain to do and a real pain to change.

There's a lot of details in your project that I don't know about, but one way of doing this is to select each set of clips that you want to apply the pan/zoom effect to, and then use Range Produce. Replace the separate timeline clips with the produced version, and then you can use Paste Keyframe Attributes (copied from a master clip) to apply the same pan/zoom settings.

If you want to change up any of the settings, like starting or ending locations, you'll only need to change them once rather than trying to match them across the individual clips.

Thanks yes the range produce is another workaround, but again it's fiddly and if you want to do any cutting/pasting then you have to do redo it again.