Hi there! Welcome to this video! Let's see together how to manage and
edit your media imported in your project with CyberLink PowerDirector
14, easily and shortly.
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In the beginner tutorial we have seen the very basic steps to create and
edit your project in full with all its basic components or clips. There
are four main important clips inside your timeline: title clips, audio
clips, video clips and image clips. The way you edit them may be slightly
different between one kind of clip and another.
Title clips can be fully edited and personalized with effects and motion
through a dialog box called Title Designer.
If you want to know how to manage 2D and 3D text in full, check out our
related video in this guide!
Let's see how to edit audio clips. If you double-click on the audio clip
interested, the Trim Audio dialog box appears. This is used to edit the
sound waveform in order to trim and cut all parts you don't need, more
precisely than what you can do using the general timeline.
You can zoom in and out clicking and dragging from the timeline above.
Then, use the Mark in and the Mark out buttons to place two markers on
the timeline, used to trim the sound waveform. These markers will be
placed on the exact position of the playhead on the waveform.
More below, select Original to hear the whole waveform as it is
originally, or choose Output to check the results of your modifications
inside the Trim Audio window. These changes will be definitely applied
when you click on OK below.
To edit the audio waveform itself, you need to select the audio clip
and go to Edit Audio right above. To go on, you do need AudioDirector or
WaveEditor softwares for this.
Let's see how to edit and manage image and video clips.
You can trim video clips simply clicking and dragging their edges on the
left or right, directly on your timeline. If you need to be more precise,
select the clip and go to the scissor icon above to open the Trim window.
Above, you can select between Single Trim and Multi Trim. Single Trim
works just like the Trim Audio window seen before, trimming the
video clip using the two Mark In and Mark Out buttons.
Multi Trim is more advanced, since it is able to trim your video clip in
multiple parts, using the Mark In and the Mark Out buttons. Each part
identified by a couple of markers is called segment, and each of them is
listed on the right. Go to OK to apply the changes.
This window is not available for image clips, since these are a unique
static picture.
If you double-click on an image or a video clip, you will open the
PiP Designer, a window that collects all tools used to apply a very
good Picture in Picture effect, also called PiP.
A PiP effect consists in placing an image (or a video) on another picture
or video while you play. To show properly all tools inside the PiP
Designer, let's apply a PiP effect with an image and a video clip for
example.
If you want to apply an image on a video, make sure to place the image
clip on a lower track, in order to overlap the video clip. Then, open
the PiP Designer double-clicking on the image clip. This has an embedded
Preview that shows how your clip is behaving inside your overall project.
Hold CTRL down and use your mouse wheel if you need to zoom in or out.
On the left, under Properties tab, you have all the tools to set a good
PiP effect. Position is used to adjust precisely the position of the clip
on the Preview. To move fast, instead, just click and drag the clip
directly from the Preview. Use Scale to size the clip precisely, or use
the white nodes on the Preview. Uncheck Maintain aspect ratio to deform
the clip if you need.
Adjust transparency and rotation through the Opacity and the Rotation
sections.
Chroma Key is used to make colors transparent. Select the color through
the color picker on the left and click on the clip to pick a color.
This will be treated according to the options chosen on the left.
Remember to check and uncheck an effect to enable or disable it.
The following effects are effective for PiP effects. Use Shadow to apply
shadow under such clip, setting Distance, Blur and Opacity; use
Reflection to apply reflection; use Border to apply outer glows; use
Flip to flip the clip vertically or horizontally.
Use 3D Settings to adjust depth in case of 3D projects, and use Fades to
apply fade-in and fade-out transitions to make the clip appear or
disappear in time.
Under the Motion tab you can choose and apply a motion path on the clip.
This changes the position of the clip in time, following the green
arrow that appears on the Preview. This arrow can be edited just like a
clip: use the white nodes to scale the path; click and drag to move it
withthe clip as well. Use the green nodes to rotate the path.
Plus, you can drag the yellow nodes or the green path itself to edit the
motion path.
If you want to remove any motion path, just click on the blue cross on
the left.
Under Rotation Settings, you can apply a continuous rotation on the clip,
choosing between a clockwise or a counter clockwise rotation. If you
apply a rotation over 360 degrees, multiple consecutive rotations will
be applied.
Fade-in, fade-out transitions, motion paths and rotations do add keyframes
on your local timeline.
If you want to know more about keyframes and effects that change in time,
check out our related video in this guide!
All those effects are applied throughout all the clip's duration. So
the shorter is the clip, the faster the effects will be.
You can also apply Motion Blur on the clip. This is quite useful to make
a more realistic effect in case you make the clip move.
Often check how your clip is using the player on the Preview. Remember to
stop the Preview before going on editing the clip. If you don't stop the
player first, you won't be able to apply or edit any effect.
There is also the Mask tab. This is used to apply a masking effect on
the clip, choosing the shape on the left. The white side represents the
parts of the clip visible, while the checked ones all parts that will
stay hidden. You can click and drag to move the mask, in order to show
other parts of the clip, or drag the white nodes to scale it. You can
also invert the mask and adjust the feather contour. If you want to
adjust the mask object precisely, go to Object Settings.
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