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OhMyGosh wrote on 7/23/2014, 9:48 AM
For your pic in pic, you are placing the 'smaller' pic on the track above and using 'Track Motion'? If so, make sure that you add your effect directly to the above event, and not to that whole track or things can get weird. Let us know. Cin
Tim L wrote on 7/23/2014, 1:53 PM
I take it you are using Pan/Crop to make the smaller picture, right? If so, open up the Video FX window for that event (I.e. that clip on the timeline) and near the top of that window you will see your "Pan/Crop" listed and the "Sony Border" listed in the effects chain. Drag the "Pan/Crop" box over so it appears [I]after[/I] the Border effect.

Video FX are always applied to the full size "canvas" -- even if you've shrunk your video down to occupy only a small part of the canvas. So the Border effect always goes around the edge of the full canvas (I think).

By switching order around, the processing is now like this:
1. Put a border around my video.
2. Now shrink my video (and border) down so most of my canvas is "clear" and the lower track shows through.

In most cases for a picture-in-picture effect, you'll probably want your Pan/Crop last.

Edit: And it might be worth looking into using Track Motion for picture-in-picture, as it might be a better way to do it. But a lot of people still use Pan/Crop.
Jerry Dycus wrote on 7/24/2014, 6:15 AM
I was NOT using track motion- that was my problem. Thanks
SomeDude wrote on 10/4/2024, 6:50 AM
I take it you are using Pan/Crop to make the smaller picture, right? If so, open up the Video FX window for that event (I.e. that clip on the timeline) and near the top of that window you will see your "Pan/Crop" listed and the "Sony Border" listed in the effects chain. Drag the "Pan/Crop" box over so it appears [I]after[/I] the Border effect.

Video FX are always applied to the full size "canvas" -- even if you've shrunk your video down to occupy only a small part of the canvas. So the Border effect always goes around the edge of the full canvas (I think).

By switching order around, the processing is now like this:
1. Put a border around my video.
2. Now shrink my video (and border) down so most of my canvas is "clear" and the lower track shows through.

In most cases for a picture-in-picture effect, you'll probably want your Pan/Crop last.

Edit: And it might be worth looking into using Track Motion for picture-in-picture, as it might be a better way to do it. But a lot of people still use Pan/Crop.

Your comment helped me 10 years after it was posted that's crazy !

Thank you :)