[RobPro]

I looked through the past few pages of posts and didn't see anything addressing my situation, so I figured I'd just post it here.

I have a picture in the video slot on the time line that I'm using for a background. I have another picture in PNG format in the overlay section. I'm trying to get the overlay picture to move in a particular fashion around the background picture I have in the video slot, and the only options I've been able to find are kind of clunky one-directional movements that don't allow for much control or variation over the specific path the picture takes. Is Videowave capable of some more complex types of motion?

Also, is there a way to add extra video/overlay layers to the timeline?

Thanks in advance.

[T.O.T.G.]

RobPro, on Aug 3 2006, 08:02 PM, said:

I looked through the past few pages of posts and didn't see anything addressing my situation, so I figured I'd just post it here.

I have a picture in the video slot on the time line that I'm using for a background. I have another picture in PNG format in the overlay section. I'm trying to get the overlay picture to move in a particular fashion around the background picture I have in the video slot, and the only options I've been able to find are kind of clunky one-directional movements that don't allow for much control or variation over the specific path the picture takes. Is Videowave capable of some more complex types of motion?

Also, is there a way to add extra video/overlay layers to the timeline?

Thanks in advance.

No, I do not believe you can have custom motion.

As for extra video/overlay layers, I believe you can only have that in the Deluxe Suite.
The above is incorrect -- There is no Deluxe Suite. My bad. Thanks for pointing this out mlpasley and sknis!

This post has been edited by TOTG: 07 August 2006 - 05:00 AM

[RobPro]

Alrighty, thanks for the speedy response.

[T.O.T.G.]

RobPro, on Aug 4 2006, 08:26 AM, said:

Alrighty, thanks for the speedy response.

No problem. There are workarounds, but nothing that would produce a really smooth animation. You could, for instance, have two overlay pictures.

Have one be closed curtains, and have one be open curtains. Make the closed ones over a "colour panel", and the open ones over the picture you want to have displayed. Make sure the overlays are on the internal tracks of the respective pictures. Then just do a "dissolve" transition, and it'll look like the curtains dissolve open!

Or do a radial wipe type of transition... Be creative!