PIP with Border

jamcas wrote on 8/22/2003, 12:49 AM

Hi,

thanks to some advice in previous requests I have been learning quite a bit in VV.

I now have PIP working by using 2 video tracks where the top track is my 'small' picture
and Ive used Pan/Zoom to place it on the top right corner of the final video.

Now I wanted to put a small white border around the small picture(video) to make it a bit neater , when i use the Border FX it wants to put a border around the whole video not the PIP video in the top left corner.

The only ways I can figure to get around this is

1. Take my small PIP video render it to a new AVI with a white border import it to mdeia bin and then pan zoom it to the position i want

or

2. add another video track with a white square which is slightly bigger than my PIP video , then put my PIP video on top of that so the excess white appears as a border.

So my question ... is there a better way to do it than the ways I have described above ?

cheers
JC

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 8/22/2003, 12:53 AM

I tend to use Track Motion instead of Pan/Crop.

This downsizes the whole frame so that when you apply a border effect this puts a border round the reduced frame.

You may be able to do this with Pan/Crop using the Pre/Post toggle - that's the little triangle to the left of the Keyframe section. Pre or post refers to whether to apply the border before or after the pan crop.

Chanimal wrote on 8/22/2003, 1:58 AM

If you combine the track resizing with the cookie cutter plug-in, you can easily have a border (part of the plugin). I've had a soft pink or blue (man/women). I've also taken other video with a feathered edge and placed it in the corner, at an exact location (like a bubble above someone's head, etc.

Works great.

jetdv wrote on 8/22/2003, 9:57 AM

In the Border control, look at the word "Border" to the left of the keyframe timeline. To the left of the word "Border" is a little triangle. Click on it an it will affect the resized window instead of the full screen.

jamcas wrote on 8/25/2003, 11:26 PM

Thanks for the tip JETDV !

This is a great forum with lots of friendly advice

Begbie wrote on 8/26/2003, 7:21 PM

That is truely a great tip for me (being a newbie and all).

i am going to re do the first play movie i made last night with this border now.

I have a video background thas a velocity env making the video still, also have the sepia FX on it.

Then i have 4 PIPs that fade in one at a time, eahc p[lays for a few seconds then stops and fades into sepia before the next one fades in plays, stop and fades to sepia, then the 4 PIPs fade off and the background fades out of sepia into colour at the same time as the velocity env allows motion to resume.