Sometimes when you tried to hide quality issues with tricks like this you only draw more attention to them.

You don't say how you're digitzing your 8mm -- or even if you're talking about 8mm film or 8mm video. But if you're using a good digitizer, good enough is probably good enough.

Besides, remember the opening to the old TV show "The Wonder Years?" There's a certain stylish look to old, rough movies.

Quote Sometimes when you tried to hide quality issues with tricks like this you only draw more attention to them.

You don't say how you're digitzing your 8mm -- or even if you're talking about 8mm film or 8mm video. But if you're using a good digitizer, good enough is probably good enough.

Besides, remember the opening to the old TV show "The Wonder Years?" There's a certain stylish look to old, rough movies.

I had them digitized years ago by some company I can't recall.

I get the potential problems with the aesthetics. But, given this is merely a personal video for family, it shouldn't be an issue. I am learning the application though, so I don'e have the skills or learning to attempt this yet. How would I go about doing this in Powerdirector?

Quote Hello,

I am new to video editing. I wanted to cut my teeth creating a video of my honeymoon in Ireland, but the video is old 8mm and it looks rather heinous in comparison to today's digital creations. My thinking to make this more palatable is to do a PIP? here is what I was thinking:

Have a static background of an old tube television and place the 4:3 8mm video within that graphic within a 16:9 screen.

Is something like this possible?

Hi,
Yes, very straightforward if your TV image remains static and has a non-curved 4:3 display. Most TV images actually show a more realistic curved display and then a few extra steps are needed.

If you are very lucky:

Place a suitable old TV image in track 1
Place your 8mm in track 2 and resize and re-position within the TV to suit.

More likely, and to get a better result, with a more realistic old curved TV display:

Grab a suitable TV image with a 16:9 clip AR
Make the TV display itself transparent in an image handling program
or
if the display is a solid color (like white) color fill with solid green that can be chromkeyed out later

Then place the 8mm in track 1
place the TV image in T2

If the TV image is transparent, the 8mm on T1 will show through and needs to be resized and repositioned to suit.

If the TV image has been colorfilled to green, use PiP designer to chromakey out the green (in effect making it transparent) and resize/reposition T1 to suit.

You will find that to make a good result, careful choice of TV image and attention to edges will require some time.

Here's a quick and dirty example project screen cap and video.

Helpful links
https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/powerdirector-video-editing-software/1183/how-to-use-the-pip-designer
https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/powerdirector-video-editing-software?category=1&pf=1&pv=1&ft=825


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Thank you! I will give it a try.