Overlay Expand

[CajunRon]

I am wanting to start my video as an overlay onto a "movie screen" on the main video track (which I know how to do) but then then have the overlay expand to fit the full screen. Is this possible with VS10plus?

[Black Lab]

The following link is a tutorial for shrinking an overlay and having it move to the corner of the screen. From this tutorial I suppose you could figure out how to do the opposite.

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=17654

[blplhp]

Thanks, Jeff for recommending my tutorial.

As far as making an overlay image or video clip continually expand from a small size to a larger or full screen size, I don't think VS10+ can easily do this. I asked this question many months ago and I believe the answer was that only MSP8 could do this.

To accomplish this task with VS10+ would take forever to do it. You would have to copy and paste many copies of the smaller sized video/image clip onto the overlay track (placed next to each other) and slightly increase the size of the overlay image in each successive clip, while at the same time keeping the center point of the clip in the same position, in order to get a fluid looking expansion of the smaller original overlay clip. The more incremental steps (clips) you use, the more fluid the expansion will look. A very tedious process. I have not tried it yet, but it sounds like it would work.

[adbarnes]

if you use the movie wizard, one of the slideshow smartscenes does that effect where it shows the picture on a movie screen on the side of a building then it zooms to full view.

I forget which one it is right now, but I have used it a few times.

[Ron P.]

if you use the movie wizard, one of the slideshow smartscenes does that effect where it shows the picture on a movie screen on the side of a building then it zooms to full view.

I forget which one it is right now, but I have used it a few times.

That one does not zoom in. It uses a 2 Cross-Fade transitions with a black color clip sandwiched between them to transition from the intro (movie on side of building) to your first image.