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Nat thanks for comments & link on Virtual Dub’s Deshaker Plug-in. Yes I have used it before in Virtual Dub, often tricky to setup if you don’t use the default settings. I still don’t know why people occasionally use video cameras to film tv screens, you are always going to get a poor results in picture and sound, especially picture due to tv line frames. Tv & film or video cameras don’t work together. Just learn to use PVR most tv ‘s have them now days, or if your at a convention / exhibition / stadium where there are tv screens of products & services, maybe ask if they have the videos on their website to download.

Super reply Nat, “Save Project As “ is definitely the way to go! Vp is nearly “idiot Proof” it might not have “Bins” as such but it even knows if you have moved you files and tells you to go and get them, great little program! I have not lost any masters

Thanks Nat for great reply. Moving PIP in 5 simple steps! No simple “extraction”, Arrrh! that’s what I thought. So with any sort of Fx applied to Video, you do A to B to get a result, But there is no simple way to undo Fx from a finished product, no B to A. That’s sad, remember to keep a Non Fx Master!.

Can VideoPad make or recover Moving PIP? A small Picture floats around inside a larger Picture and bounces off its borders. The smaller Picture varies in size as it floats around. Can the content of the smaller floating picture be extracted using VideoPad?

Thanks Nat for reply. In the example I gave its even more complicated to fix screen in post as the video cameras are often hand held with no gimbals or steady cam type devices and often only standard HD 1920x1080 resolution. The resulting uploaded video is shaky up & down and left to right as well as rotation. I first try to stabilize, then use the mask but still end up with a trapezoidal screen shape if I want the screen in proportion. If I then try to use scale I turn circles into ovals, heads become noticeable wider as I scale the screen linear wider to make it rectangular. When I watch it thru I still have the on-screen action moving out side the screen. So the left to right movement of the camera is quit a lot and irregular. About the only think that I can do is tight crop which is cutting too much out. Everyone that films anything should use either a steady cam type device or a rest, if you really want to film the tv to post and show people and you don’t have a tripod just use a chair to rest your video camera on and point it straight in front of the tv and don’t touch it until the item on the tv finishes. Other wise if you hand hold the video camera you will make your audience sea sick with a jerky and rolling picture. Various video editors do have tracking plug-ins, but even these are only good for scenes, locking on to something in the scene to center or other wise setting the screen frame. There is also “tracker-pod” web camera software used in competition ballroom dancing to follow a particular couple around the ballroom floor.

Is Trapezoidal & Free Form Video Crop possible with VideoPad Video Editor? Example: some times uploaders to You Tube just use a video camera to film the tv, they hold the camera at an angle to avoid flair, resulting in a trapazoidal frame of their tv screen. if you down load their video it not rectangular and needs to be corrected.