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rollysons wrote on 6/24/2008, 7:23 AM

I am a novice at Vegas so please bare with me. I am working on a photo slideshow that has pictures of lots of people. Like a school class picture with people on risers.

My question is, how can I put like an arrow to point to a particular person? Maybe a circle around them but without cropping/blackening out the rest of the picture. I know how to pan/crop so that I can draw attention to a certain section of the people/picture, but how would I be able to highlight/point to just one? I don't want to pan/crop so tight as to zoom in on just one person of hundreds.

Thank you.

Shannon

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John Gordon wrote on 6/24/2008, 7:42 AM

place an image of an arrow or circle with a transparent background on a layer above your picture and use pan/crop or track motion to size a place to suit.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 6/24/2008, 10:36 AM

You could drop the "Elliptical ring" from the color gradiant pallet in the media generator tab on the track above the video. You can change the shape, color, location of the ring to fit your needs and you could have it mirror any movement that you might apply to your photo. That might be better than an arrow. I guess its a matter of taste.

Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2008, 10:49 AM

It's also amazing how many creative things you can do simply with fonts. Use the letter "o" to put a ring around someone. The placement and properties tabs in the text generator will let you size it, move it around, color it, make it semi-transparent, add shadows & glows, all sorts of things.

Use a font like WingDings for a large assortment of arrows and other pointers. Use Pan/Crop to rotate the arrows to point whatever direction you want.

Best of all, this is all free, included right in Vegas.

rollysons wrote on 6/24/2008, 3:27 PM

Thank you all for the great ideas.

It's exactly what I wanted.

Sometimes all you have to do is open your eyes.