I am having a problem inserting a photo into the video timeline

[Jeff Wisener]

Originally Posted by Graham Bernard

Possibly our chum here doesn’t know that PNGs with a Transparent Background is the preferred/straightforward way of doing this? The clue is the “ingenious” route of attempting to employ that Green Screen, has yet to be Keyed-out. And Rainer, of course you’re correct 😉.

What I also like doing is setting up the PNG on an already “correct” Background, also for HD of 1920x1080. This ensures that when I bring it into VP it is correctly Sized and Positioned not requiring too much Pan/Crop manipulation. I was doing exactly this yesterday.

There is another Step once you’ve imported your New PNG into VP, and that is to go to its Properties and activated the the Transparent Background. This is only two clicks away.

So, to summarise:

1 - In your Graphics Package create/size/position your Logo on a 1920x1080 Background.

2 - Save as PNG with Transparent Background.

3 - Import into VP and place it on an Upper Track.

4 - Activate the PNGs Transparent Background and then you could fine tune its Position through Pan/Crop

If you need any further assistance we’re here to offer it.

Cheers - G

Thank you, I have done just that & have been successful.

[Jeff Wisener]

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

Pan/Crop is not the correct tool to shrink an image to show in the corner.

Try using Track Motion instead. Or even the "Picture in Picture" effect. Both will be much easier to use.

Pan/Crop is designed to "crop" an image and "pan" across it. Track Motion is designed to resize/position the image.

Edward, good Advice! When I started using the Track motion option things got much easier.

Below, statement then question:

1.When I use pan/crop to crop my surfing videos; I do this on about 80% of my surf videos because the surfer is moving and it is impossible to smoothly and accurately tightly pan while shooting so I have found pan/crop in post edit is the way to go.

2. When I an inserting a small bottom right hand logo that remains the entire video, and use the pan crop, then insert a larger logo at the beginning of the video it remembers the pan/crop settings of the smaller logo, does the same to it. When I fix the larger logo I notice it has moved the positioning of the smaller logo. Somehow they are being interconnecting in settings.

Question:

Why can I pan crop multiple time on my video clip, go to the next clip and it is not effected by the pan and crop of my previous clip but in the example of #2 above the crop/pans are effecting each other?


Thanks in advance!

[Edward Troxel]

Jeff, I didn't exactly follow what you are saying there. I do know that if two events are referencing the same thing, changing one can affect the other.

With Track Motion, you would definitely need to use keyframes in order to define how big each area is or just use separate tracks.

Can you show some screenshots or video of how you're using the Pan/Crop and how one is affecting the other?

[Jeff Wisener]

Originally Posted by Rainer Listing

Edward, you are of course correct. My apologies. As Buddha pointed out there are many paths to the top of the mountain. I (and a few others) started out on the correct path, but then took a less suitable one. Care also to speculate why Jeff's photos are scaled down? - my guess, he's using a template with track motion engaged on that track, reset or delete the track and he'll be good.

Basically I solved the problem. I am not sure it is the best way to solve it but it works. I am having success inserting animated logo at the beginning of the video by putting it on a greenscreen background 1920 x 1080, inserting it on its own separate timeline. Likewise (1920 x 1080 green screen background) with the smaller logo I place throughout my video on the bottom right side of the screen. if I pit them both on the same time line, that's when problems begin so I don't.

I still do not understand why I can do crop after crop on other videos and they never effect other video clips but when I insert my logo clips that are simply rendered videos insert, they act differently.

[Jeff Wisener]

I want to thank everyone for your input, it helped. Learning can be frustrating and messy. In the end, I got it working.

I have pretty much gone into full time filming & creating videos on YouTube. I am putting in a lot of hours so problems like this become a real pain. The type of YouTube channel I am doing requires videos at least every third day, preferably daily. As it 2-4 hours of shooting, at times 2 cameras, 200 clips each and likely 3-4 waves per clip and it takes 8-10 hours to create those videos, post them and provide videos clips for surfers etc. The help I am getting on this forum is the only source of help I get beyond YouTube.

Thanks, Jeff