Perspective Tilt

CyberSimon

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Apr 26, 2020 06:28

Hi All

I am struggling to find a simple way to apply a perspective tilt or (depth) z-axis rotation for 2D images or clips in PowerDirector.

I'd like to change a rectangular image to this shape: / \

I know the are the "blue-squares", which allow you to free-transform the content, but is there a simpler control for this?

If the PIP designer had a perspective-tilt / z-axis rotation that would be most helpful!!

I'm trying to load a large image of a map, and "tilt" it to give a perspective of depth, but I imagine the effect could be useful for many things, such as "Star Wars" style titles etc.

Cheers

Simon.

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BarryTheCrab

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Apr 26, 2020 08:07

Colordirector, if you have it, has a keystone function. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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JL_JL

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Apr 26, 2020 09:25

Quote Colordirector, if you have it, has a keystone function.

I'm thinking Barry had PhotoDirector on his mind, it has a keystone feature. I don't believe ColorDirector does.

Jeff

BarryTheCrab

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Apr 26, 2020 10:21

I'm not gonna bother looking later, you are surely correct, Jeff. Ok maybe I'll look... HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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CyberSimon

Newbie Joined: Jun 04, 2017 14:13 Messages: 9 Offline

Apr 26, 2020 11:01

Quote Hi All

I am struggling to find a simple way to apply a perspective tilt or (depth) z-axis rotation for 2D images or clips in PowerDirector.

I'd like to change a rectangular image to this shape: / \

I know the are the "blue-squares", which allow you to free-transform the content, but is there a simpler control for this?

If the PIP designer had a perspective-tilt / z-axis rotation that would be most helpful!!

I'm trying to load a large image of a map, and "tilt" it to give a perspective of depth, but I imagine the effect could be useful for many things, such as "Star Wars" style titles etc.

Cheers

Simon.

It would be nice to have this feature in PowerDirector, then you could animated the tilt / Keystone effect with Keyframes. If you could also set the the locate of the pivot axis, then you could create Titles or PIP objects that "fall down" or "flip" / "spin" in the perspective direction.

That would be pretty cool!

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JL_JL

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Apr 26, 2020 11:09

The blue squares which you reference can be key framed. They are freeform.

Jeff

optodata

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Apr 26, 2020 13:06

Quote It would be nice to have this feature in PowerDirector, then you could animated the tilt / Keystone effect with Keyframes. If you could also set the the locate of the pivot axis, then you could create Titles or PIP objects that "fall down" or "flip" / "spin" in the perspective direction.

That would be pretty cool!