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IanG wrote on 9/10/2004, 12:37 AM
The Cookie Cutter effect, which does PIP, used to be added as a registration "bonus" - I don't know if that's still true though.

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 9/10/2004, 4:53 AM
You can use Pan/Crop for this. Put the background video on the video track and the inset video on the overlay track. Stretch the crop area larger than the frame size and the image will be reduced. Place the PIP in the frame by sliding the cropping rectangle around in the opposite direction.
IanG wrote on 9/10/2004, 5:07 AM
>You can use Pan/Crop for this.

I'd forgotten that! The cookie cutter does have the advantages of allowing different shapes and feathered edges though.

Ian G.
Steamboat wrote on 9/10/2004, 6:18 AM
Cookie Cutter is there in the Video FX, but as I look at it, it only allows a small portion of the overlay video to be shown. Using the Pan technique allows the whole picture in the PIP.

Of course I am new so I just may not know how to properly use the cookie cutter PIP.:-)
IanG wrote on 9/10/2004, 6:44 AM
You can use both techniques together to get the whole picture in a circular 'frame' with a feathered edge :-) . Example - my wife took some video of me and our 2 sons in one of those wild west pictures with cutouts where you poke your face through. I was able to take some footage of my wife and arrange things so that it looked like she was in the picture as well. It wasn't completely convincing, but it was fun!

A lot of MS' power comes from being able to combine things like this.

Ian G.