I've had Sony Movie Studio 13 for ages now and it works well enough but good god it is -IMPOSSIBLE- to get any sort of working animation with this thing.
Whoever designed the Pan/Crop tool (yanno, the only thing you have since Track Motion isn't a feature in this watered down product) had to have been off their rocker to put it on a separate timeline than the rest of the video..
Let's say I want to add in an image - a simple, black censor bar to cover up something that should not be viewed by all viewers. In order to get that to move -with- the part of the video I'm trying to cover I have to manually add in keyframes for each individual movement which is -RIDICULOUSLY HARD- when the censor bar's clip is on it's own timeline.
It is -impossible- to put keyframes in on a 14 second timeline when you have a 5-10 minute long video. Am I expected to pull a calculator and math out the exact space that the keyframe should be for the censor bar animation with every single frame of the video? I have to math out whenever I want the keyframe to be at 3:59:02, when the clip started at 3:57:02 and know that that takes place 00:02:00 on the Censor Bar's timeline? This is -insane-.
In what world would that have ever made sense?
http://i.imgur.com/9xICKSi.png
Whoever designed the Pan/Crop tool (yanno, the only thing you have since Track Motion isn't a feature in this watered down product) had to have been off their rocker to put it on a separate timeline than the rest of the video..
Let's say I want to add in an image - a simple, black censor bar to cover up something that should not be viewed by all viewers. In order to get that to move -with- the part of the video I'm trying to cover I have to manually add in keyframes for each individual movement which is -RIDICULOUSLY HARD- when the censor bar's clip is on it's own timeline.
It is -impossible- to put keyframes in on a 14 second timeline when you have a 5-10 minute long video. Am I expected to pull a calculator and math out the exact space that the keyframe should be for the censor bar animation with every single frame of the video? I have to math out whenever I want the keyframe to be at 3:59:02, when the clip started at 3:57:02 and know that that takes place 00:02:00 on the Censor Bar's timeline? This is -insane-.
In what world would that have ever made sense?
http://i.imgur.com/9xICKSi.png