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Hi, Im trying to include a video or still photo within another video movie, so that a narrator can point to a running video in the background, while he is talking. This would have to be done in the editing stage. i cant find a way to do this with the software yet, so hoping that someone can help me out. Thanks!

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Hi

 

You will require VP version 2.41 to do this with no complications.

I shall assume that your narrator will be in the smaller image/video. So you will need two videos...the narrator and your main video.

 

First of all use the "Add Media" button on the left end of the tool bar to add your narrator clip and your main video clip to the media list.(They could equally be images but as this adds slight complications I shall describe the process using video clips)

 

Put VP into Timeline mode (as you can see things better,) and then drag and drop your main video clip onto the sequence line. (There are other ways but this is the easiest to start with.) This will be your background clip. At this point you have a simple video of this clip. It will appear on the sequence as a series of thumbnails with its audio line beneath it on the audio track.

 

Now grab your narrator clip from the media list and drag it to the overlay track (between the thumbnails and the audio track) and drop it there, vertcally under your main video clip.

Wait for VP to register it. (A grey bar will run along the top of the overlay track.) You can drag your overlay left or right to set it in its correct place as you wish.(But wait for VP to record it before you continue)

 

Drag the red cursor along the sequence line a bit to see what you now have, and if you check the right hand preview window you will see your narrator clip) as a small image at the bottom centre of the main clip.

 

Left click the overlay and it will now appear in the left preview pane with its controls beneath it.

 

In the arrow matrix square click the arrow corresponding to the side/corner where you want your narrator clip to appear against the main clip. You will see your little thumbnail in the right hand pane move as you do this.

 

Use the "Size" slider to adjust the size of your overlay.

Use the "Opacity" slider to set its density.

You can set its precise position with the border settings button (square with the two arrows).

 

You can now monitor your movie by playing it in the right hand preview pane.

 

You can reset any of the positions etc. if they don't seem correct.

 

Your problem now will probably be the narrator clip sound track as the overlay will not have any sound(even if there is a soundtrack associated with the clip and I am assuming the narrator clip will have sound. :mellow: )

 

So.

Left click the narrator clip in the media list window and select "Save audio track as a separate file". This will place the sound from the narrator clip onto the media list.

From here drag onto Soundtrack 1.

 

All you need now to do is to synch up you soundtrack 1 with the narrator overlay video by playing the film and sliding the sound clip left or right until it matches your narrator. (you may have to enlarge your overlay to see it better and zoom in with the slider bottom right of the screen. If you want to keep the sound associated with the main clip then OK. By right clicking the main audio track you can select to lower the volume or you can add fade in/out points to it as the narrator speaks by adjusting the yellow line.

 

If you don't want the main track sound then you can either mute it or remove it. Removing it looks better (and you can replace it easily enough if you want it back.)

Right click the sequence line thumbnails and select to "Unlink the sound" This will drop the sound clip down to Soundtrack 2 leaving the audio track empty.

(Soundtrack 1 has the narrator sound.)

Left click the sound track (which will select it AND nudge it to unlink it**) and then Right click it to select "Remove selected audio" You will now have only the narrator sound track playing.

 

It will be up to you to adjust the clip lengths etc.

 

** Unless you move the sound track it doesn't unlink and deleting it will also remove the video, Left clicking it as well as selecting it, will also nudge it but you could equally grab it and drag it with the cursor (which means using the left hand mouse button).

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Nat

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HI Nationalsolo, i followed your instructions and they worked great!! Thanks a lot for your help, this will get me started on making documentaries.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi people! We are also new with Videopad & were facing the same issues before reading this article. It did help us a bit! Now the question is from our end, we're trying to play 2 or even 4 different footages on one screen.

 

A good exemple would be lets say the screen is 400 pixels wide & 400 pixels high for the sake of our question. We would like to have a set of footage that is 200 x 200 pixels wide & high on the left & the same credentials with a different footage on the right???

 

Unfortunately, we havent succeed @ this yet.. ..any help would be much appreciated!

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Hi

It doesn't pose too much of a problem. :)

Follow the instructions I posted above for adding your first overlay video/image, using the Size slider to alter it to the size you want. You can place it into a different area of the screen (your background film) using the arrow matrix and the border settings (next to the green screen button).

 

Now you can add your second (or subsequent) overlay image/film to the overlay track but note that you can now drag it along the track so that it overlaps the first overlay on the track. It doesn't stop against it like the film track. Now simply use the arrow matrix and size slider plus border settings as before, to position this second overlay onto the background film . It will order itself so that it overlaps the first overlay in the film you are creating. (The first overlay is under the second and both are under subsequent ones.)

 

You can add multiple overlays in this way and by using different start/end positions for them you can arrange for them to appear and disappear (or fade in and fade out) at different times. You can also add any of the film effects to them. With a bit of ingenuity you can create some very interesting title effects.

 

 

Nat

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Hi people! We are also new with Videopad & were facing the same issues before reading this article. It did help us a bit! Now the question is from our end, we're trying to play 2 or even 4 different footages on one screen.

 

A good exemple would be lets say the screen is 400 pixels wide & 400 pixels high for the sake of our question. We would like to have a set of footage that is 200 x 200 pixels wide & high on the left & the same credentials with a different footage on the right???

 

Unfortunately, we havent succeed @ this yet.. ..any help would be much appreciated!

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Hi, Ive been experimenting with videopad, and have added 3 videos to the one screen, plus have a video playing full screen in the background. I used the arrows square in the clip pane, to move the videos to the left, right, corners etc. of the screen, and resized the individual videos with the mouse. The videos are added to the project by clicking and dragging them to the overlay portion of the screen, and waiting for the progress bar at the top of the overlay line.

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