Is there a Picture-in-Picture plugin or not?

HeeHee wrote on 1/31/2002, 10:09 AM

I recently updated my system to Windows XP, but did not upgrade so I had to reinstall all my applications including VF 2.0. When I was registering the MPEG1 plugin I noticed a statement about getting a new free PIP plugin for registering the product, but I did not pay too much attention to it at the time figuring there would be some explaination on the SF website. I have searched the knowledgebase and have found nothing about doing PIP with VF or VV.

Has anyone heard of this plugin? If so, how do you get it?

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SonyEPM wrote on 1/31/2002, 10:57 AM

In VF2, look for the cookie cutter plug-in. Vegas has all sorts of ways to achieve PIP.

HeeHee wrote on 1/31/2002, 11:46 AM

Thanks! I'll try that.

Chienworks wrote on 1/31/2002, 4:19 PM

If you don't need to crop the inset video at all, there's an even simpler way using just the pan/crop tool. Put the full screen video on the main video track, and the inset video on the overlay track. Go to pan/crop for the video event in the overlay track and stretch the crop rectangle out larger than the picture (sort of an anti-crop). The crop rectangle will be the area of the video output, and the picture will be the relative size of the inset. You can make the crop rectangle pretty much as large as you want and move it around if you want the inset somewhere besides dead center.

If you place the timeline cursor somewhere inside the inset video event, you'll see the effects of resizing and moving the crop rectange in real time in the preview window.

HeeHee wrote on 2/18/2002, 1:12 PM

Thanks for the additional tip Chienworks. Haven't had a chance to try either tips, but they seam like what I am trying to do.