PIP and/or How to best search this BBS

Caruso wrote on 5/4/2002, 2:47 AM

Working on a project that would benefit from a picture-in-picture scene. I tried to search this forum: (PIP)(Picture in picture)(PIP picture in picture) were the search terms I used. They either resulted in a huge number of messages returned, or, a relatively small number that did not net any threads specific to my topic.

I'll be reviewing my online manual for tips (I'm guessing this falls under compositing), but would appreciate tips from anyone experienced at using VV30 for PIP.

I'm not too lazy to spend time looking for the answer, but would prefer to spend most of that time completing my little project.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Caruso - Now I think I'll do a quick search of the forum on compositing.

Comments

dcrandall wrote on 5/4/2002, 8:38 AM

PIP is accomplished by using the Track Motion control (page 284 in the manual) There is also an example included on the Veags 3 Disk (Sample Projects\Compositing and Motion Basics\Track Motion.veg)

winrockpost wrote on 5/4/2002, 9:42 AM

I think cookie has a preset for pip, one click ,instant pip

Caruso wrote on 5/4/2002, 1:37 PM

Uhm, Duh, what is cookie (or who is she/he?)?

I was able to use pan/crop to accomplish a PIP acceptable for my project, but I did not achieve any sort of comfort level with the program in the progress.

I have a clip that I'd like to crop, then place the result at the lower left of the screen as a PIP.

I had no problem getting a full screen clip to display as a PIP in any area on the screen, but could not seem to make that cropped clip work. I'd crop it, then resize the frame, then preview only to find that the cropped area occupied the entire area on my monitor. I know there is something simple that I'm overlooking. If someone can put me out of my agony, I'll be eternally (well, ok, maybe not eternally, but very very) grateful.

Caruso

HPV wrote on 5/4/2002, 4:03 PM

Sounds like you may have set some keyframes inadvertently in the pan/crop window. As said, track motion is better for PIP. You'll gain boarder and shadow effects. This on a upper track will do what ever you want. Pan/Crop does also do PIP, you'll like track motion better.

Craig H.

dcrandall wrote on 5/4/2002, 4:14 PM

If you want to use Pan/crop for PIP then click the "Show Properties" icon on the left. Then, make sure the "stretch to fill frame" is NOT checked.

winrockpost wrote on 5/5/2002, 5:23 PM

cookie cutter is a sonic foundry plugin,standard with vv3 , check it out, pretty useful tool,has pip as a preset