playing only one corner of the clip

[BuZZarD]

I have put together some video, that has a seperate small screen in the top right corner.
What I would like to do, is blackout the rest of the clip, have the top corner viewable so the titles are on a black background.

Can I do this in vs9?

[Ron P.]

Buzzard,

You could do this using the Crop Filter. Apply the filter, then select customize. Resize the Crop to fit the PIP. Then right click on the first Keyframe, select copy. Go to the last Keyframe, right-click and select Paste. Now your crop will remain the same size for the duration of the clip. Then you can add a title.

Ron P.

[BuZZarD]

You are a genius and a gentleman!
Now what I need to work out, is how to resize the cropped image.
I could do with zooming in a little to make the footage in the crop larger, then when the titles have passed, return to its original size and then wipe into full screen.

This program is awesome!
I used to do video work about 15 years ago on the amiga, but when I finally moved to pcs, I was looking at Adobe premier and progs like that, unfortunately, my attention span is that of a fruitfly.
With VS, it has a nice learning curve.
Worth every penny!

[Ron P.]

Great, glad it worked for you..

Don't know if you are aware and would be interested, but VS10 Plus has 6 overlay tracks, giving you a total of 7 video tracks. Doing like the PIPs, split-screens is so much easier then with VS9. You might d/l the trial and see what you think..

Ron P.

[BuZZarD]

I have a bought and paid for VS9, is VS10 discounted for existing customers?

[Ron P.]

,

I thought you might have had VS9 for awhile. They do have special upgrade prices. For VS10 Plus it is $59.

http://www.ulead.com/store/vs/runme.htm

Ron P.

[BuZZarD]

THx. I will take a look as the 4 overlays will definitely come in use.

Now I have used the crop filter to maintain visuals in the top right, but now I want it go to full screen.
I split the video to the frame after I need this to start, so I can add a new filter for the rest of the clip.
I can get it to open up to full screen, but it does so slowly up to the end of the clip (which is 5 minutes).
I can see the start and end points of the transition/filter (by red diamonds on the edit filter timeline) but cannot move the end one to an earlier point to make it faster (like within 3 seconds)

Is there a way to do this without spitting the video into a 3 second portion?
Thx.

[Ron P.]

To do this just add a keyframe where you want the end effect to be, maybe one or two seconds later. Then copy and paste the last keyframe to the one you just created..

Ron P.

[BuZZarD]

THx, problem solved.