Difficulty tracing a travel route on a Map

[Powelly_au]

Hi VS Forum,
I am presently running SV6 Pro. I have two questions: 1. I am trying to trace my travel rout on a map using ProDad Roto Pen. I have taken a 24mega pixel picture of the map of the map with my DSLR and used Microsoft paint to crop the area I am interested in. I then use RotoPen to draw the line and all looks good in the replay. However when I convert it to Blu-ray 1080p video, in the share tab, the resultant video of the map seems to be slightly rescaled, meaning parts of the map are now off the screen and the line trace appears offset and does not accurately follow the route and in some cases also starts off the screen. This does not happen if I save to DVD video in the share tab, i.e. no evidence of resizing or trace offset. Can you advise how I might get good and reliable results when saving the SV project to Blu-ray 1080p video as the DVD video loses much of the map detail due to the lower resolution?

2. Secondly I was trying to load a '.MOV' file from my Nikon DSLR onto the SV project video track and got the message that "QuickTime is required for this action, please download from iTunes' or something of that nature. Is SV6X unable to utilise .MOV files without QuickTime. Can you advise?
Regards,
Mark

[Ken Berry]

For the map, you have to ensure that it is 1920 x 1080 (or multiple thereof) in size. That is the format of your eventual Blu-Ray so the map has to be the same format for the line to match up.

As for .mov files, no -- Video Studio does not come natively with the .mov codec required to play and encode in that format. X6 was for some reason or other the only recent version of VS which did not include QuickTime as part of its installation. So you have to go to Apple/iTunes to download and install it. But it's free and you don't have to install iTunes, just QuickTime...

[Ken Veal]

I had similar problems with roto pen then found it much easier to use painting creator.You can't get such fancy results but you can choose different opacity settings, brush colours and sizes to trace the route and not have to worry about image size.