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| Picture in Picture |
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| Written by phoenix |
| Sunday, 16 March 2008 09:12 |
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This is how to do a Picture in a Picture like you would see on the evening news. This is an easy one to accomplish. The first thing to do is to place the two clips you want to use on two different track. The one you wish to be the Picture in a Picture should be in the track closer to the top. Use the "Event pan/crop" tool to resize the upper clip. I prefer to set the zoom view to 25% so that you can easily reposition the clip once you have resized it. Directions are shown in the image below.  Your finished product will look like the preview box in the above image. At this point you are ready to save the project and render it. Another way to do PIP is to use the "Cookie Cutter" feature. This will allow you to have different shapes, such as circle and diamond and fading around the edges rather than just the TV news style PIP. In this case, the larger picture would be the upper layer, with the PIP as the lower layer.  The above is the cookie cutter window, which will pop up when you select the "Cookie Cutter" out of the "Video FX" tab. In this case I chose a feathered circle. It defaults to the center of the screen, but using either the circled locator tool or the "Center X/Center Y" coordinates, you can change the location. The preview screen shows you where teh cut area will be. This is where your PIP underlayer would show through. By adjusting the location of the underlayer, I was able to have Crais show up in the cut out area. 
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