VIDEO PAINT / MSP 7

[ese]

I have been using MSP7 for a few years now for home video editing, but I am a newbie with Video Paint. I am trying to paste a video file, close up of a section in an orchestra and position it around the upper third of the screen, using another video file (the entire orchestra) as the background. I read up on the manual but was not successful. The examples they gave were that of a video file with an image file as a background. Can anyone give me some guidance or refer me to a link?

Thanks in advance.

Ed

[Devil]

This doesn't sound like a VP job, more like Picture-in-picture. Read up the Moving Path section of manual.

[ese]

Devil,

VP came with the MSP7 when I purchased it. It's also covered in the MSP user manual somewhere in the last few chapter of the manual. I know a little bit about the moving path feature PIP and I have done that. What I want to have is a ""crosshair (term used in the book) with 2 files sharing the screen.

I am sure you'll find this on the manual or probably have used it in the past. Thanks again!

[Devil]

You now have me very puzzled, indeed.

I hunted out my old MSP7 manual and tried to find "Crosshair" in the index. Zilch! So I started to skim thru the 2 chapters on VP. Zilch, that I could find! I'm not familiar with the term (unless you want to shoot the pianist!). Even dug out the MSP6 manual, but the VP chapters are the same as in MSP7, except that the pics are in glorious technicolor, instead of monochrome.

What puzzles me most is that I cannot, for the life of me, understand what you are wanting to paint, at least from the foregoing.

Are you really sure you are talking about VP and not something very different? Can you please point me to the page number of what you want to do?

Sorry

[ese]

The Video Paint tutorials (2 chapters)start on page 249 of the Media Studio Pro User Guide. Then CG Infinity also has 2 chapters starting on page 305, before Audio Editing.

Anyway, I will try to use an overlay with moving path, hopefully I'll achieve the same results, which by the way is covered under the "Using the Cloning tool" section on page 295.

Thanks again!

p.s. sorry to confuse you.

[Ron P.]

EDITED....

Ok I found where the Crosshair is mentioned.

To use the Clone tool:
1. Click the Clone tool on the Tool panel to select it. The Attribute toolbar
displays the available tools you can use to paint with and the Brush
panel changes to show the available attributes for the selected tool.
2. Hold down the [SHIFT] key and click your mouse over the area you
wish to clone. This area is marked with a crosshair and the mouse
pointer changes to the clone pointer. (You can clone from the same
image or from another edit window.)
3. Move to the area on the image where you want the clone to appear and
start dragging your mouse. The crosshair changes to indicate the area
you are cloning and as you paint you replace the area with whatever the
crosshair passes over. (The size and shape of the area painted are
determined by the current attributes in the Brush panel.)
In the Options tab of the brush panel, you can specify how the cloning
point behaves as you paint with the Absolute, Frame, and Relative
options. Absolute is the default mode and paints whatever the clone
crosshair passes over. Whenever you release your mouse the crosshair
returns to its original position allowing you to clone the same feature
again. Relative allows you to clone continuously, retaining a relationship
with the clone crosshair regardless of where you place your
mouse. (The clone crosshair does not return to the original location

That's what you are after?

This is using a "copy method" used in image editing programs. The only thing that I can offer is just follow what the manual states.

After activating the Clone Tool, while holding the shift key down, click on the area you wish to clone. Then move to the area where you want to place the cloned object, and click and drag to (clone) copy your image. In your case you would be cloning from one video to a second video...


Ron P.