HELP! IM SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS

matt_magnone · Post by **matt_magnone** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:09 am

In MSP8 I cant overlay an image as easily as you can in videostudio. In videostudio, you can resize the image and place it anywhere over your video as long as the image is in the overlay track. If I try to overlay an image in MSP8 it covers the whole screen and I cant resize anything. Is there a way to do this??

klowther · Post by **klowther** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:30 am

In MSP8, you can apply a 2D basic moving path to the image to create a picture in picture effect.

Hope that helps.

- Ken

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:05 am

Firstly when you load a clip or image to an overlay track in either program you still have to apply a moving path manually. In MSP8 it's easier to do this from the Effects Manager using the + button under the effects tree.

Once moving path is applied you have two ways to modify it:

1. For 2D or PiP's only: select the clip then adjust the moving path controls in Effects Manager after selecting Moving Path from the applied effects tree (left of EM window).

Taking it one step further you can doubleclick the EM's title bar to un-dock it. Now you can stretch it out and have the nice, long keyframer timeline everyone's been wishing for. Clicking the + button under the keyframer timeline adds a new keyframe.

2. selecting the overlay in the Preview Window and drag the green control points therein. Using these you can scale, transform or position the overlay.

That said if you want to do Picture in Picture's with little need of modification I have a collection of 24 PiP's you can install in either MSPro 7 or MSPro 8;

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/24pip.zip

matt_magnone · Post by **matt_magnone** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:12 pm

thanks guys, I got it!!!!

Now I need to figure out how to get dvd movie factory in the editor so I can go straight to the burning process like videostudio........??

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:33 am

Further to Terry's reply above concerning some extra PIP's and moving paths, I have also made available a few of mine.

If you look at the following link you will see Terrys original link showing how to import both of Terrys and my own collections into Media Studio.

The link for mine is also further down in that post.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... oving+pips

Regards
Steve J

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:29 pm

matt_magnone wrote:thanks guys, I got it!!!!

Now I need to figure out how to get dvd movie factory in the editor so I can go straight to the burning process like videostudio........??

You can't so straight to DVD authoring like in VS.

First open the Timeline Display Mode dialog and put MSP into Chapter cue mode. Now set your chapter points on the timeline cue bar and save the project file. The "regular" timeline cues will be preserved.

Next export the MPEG then browse to the File/Export/DVD Authoring menu item. This will bring up a dialog where you can load the MPEG into DVDWS4 and start authoring. Click the Add/Edit Chapter button then Auto Add Chapter/Auto Scene Detection to retrieve your chapters.