picture in picture

[pblais]

A long time ago, a friend of mine took my wedding picture and converted it to black and white. Using Photoshop, he then took smaller versions of my wife's parents' wedding picture and my parents' wedding picture and placed them behind our picture and made them visible through our picture though what looked like holes with blurred edges.
Is this possible with Videostudio X9?
I don't need to get that fancy. I would like to take his wedding picture as a background and overlay the two parent pictures in each of the top corners. I have been able to do that but it doesn't look good at all. I would like to blur/feather the edges of the two smaller pictures. I also want to make all three pictures be black and white. I found an affect that converts a still photo to black and white movie but I want black and white stills.
What I have done so far is place the main picture on one overlay track (I am using the top track for dedicated back grounds). I drag out this picture so it lasts the for about 3 seconds. I added a second overlay track and I drop the first of the parent pictures at the 1 second time mark, reduce its size and position it to upper left corner. I then stretch this time for 2 seconds. I added a third overlay track and drop the second parent picture at the 2 second time mark and do everything to it that I did to the first parent picture and place it in upper right corner and stretch it out for 1 second.
The end result is. The main picture appears one second later the first parent picture appears top left corner and another second later, the second parent picture appears top right corner. All three pictures remain on screen for one second before the transition out to the next scene in my movie.
My issue here is the parent picture look like cr*p. They are too small and I don't like the way the sharp edge of the scanned photograph that they came from is visible. I would like to see some smooth transition along the edges.
Is there some easy way to do this or some tutorial or demo that you could point me to that could get me started on this

Thanks in advance
Pierre

[lata]

Hi Pierre

There are a few ways to do this using Video Studio

I have attached a VSP project file that should open with X9, it may require a re-link to the files used.

Double click a clip to open the options panel – Attributes tab
I have applied Mask & Chroma Key – Mask Frame
Then set the “Fade in / out” ramps

Timings are a little longer than your explanation.

Customised Motion
This option should also do what you want, if you have not used this then its is worth looking at as it is a very useful tool.

X9 P in P.zip

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[pblais]

Hi Pierre

There are a few ways to do this using Video Studio

I have attached a VSP project file that should open with X9, it may require a re-link to the files used.

Double click a clip to open the options panel – Attributes tab
I have applied Mask & Chroma Key – Mask Frame
Then set the “Fade in / out” ramps

Timings are a little longer than your explanation.

Customised Motion
This option should also do what you want, if you have not used this then its is worth looking at as it is a very useful tool.

X9 P in P.zip

Thanks Trevor...
I'll check that when I get home from work later this evening

Pierre

[pblais]

Thanks Trevor...
That's some neat stuff... How do I make a color photo be black and white?

[lata]

Thanks Trevor...
That's some neat stuff... How do I make a color photo be black and white?

Hi

Your best option could be to use an Image editor.

But Video Studio has a range of FX filters which should do what you want.
Try the Monochrome filter
I also notice one called Shadows and Highlights maybe worth looking at?

Add the filter to the image
Double click to open options panel, choose customise

[pblais]

Thank you very much Trevor... This is wayyyyyyy over my head and out of my league. I will try to make do with my skill set the way it is now.. What I was really looking for was a pointer to a tutorial where I could learn about filters, masks etc. I have a feeling that I have jumped in to the deep end of the pool here without first learned how to do stuff at the shallow end.

Once again, thanks for the help Trevor

Pierre

[JaRo]

Bonjour Pierre,

If you need tutorials, go on the Web. There are lots of videos / tutorials when we type Corel VideoStudio.

Best sites :
Gripps : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF15vJ ... cHMh2UOvDg
There's also freedomearthmoon1 : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaFTRq ... RYWOxsHMUg

I've just typed in this on YouTube « corel videostudio mask » and I got lots of videos. If you type Boris Graffiti, you'll get similar results. You can also find videos for some filters provided by NewBlue. Some of these videos are made for Avid, Sony Vegas or other softwares, but they are pretty close to those with Corel VideoStudio (I've found minimum 30 about NewBlue FX videos).

[lata]

Hi Pierre

In addition you should read the User Guide for the program.
Go to the Help menu – User Guide
Or this link , http://help.corel.com/videostudio/v19/m ... dio-x9.pdf

Read the section “Overlay clips”
Also search for “
“Adding a mask frame”

That should cover the effects you were trying to create.


Good luck

[pblais]

Thank you both Trevor and Jaro for the help and info and pointing me in the right direction. I am watching the videos and RTFM...

Regards
Pierre