“idea bubbles”

[Non Techie with new hobby!]

Does VP offer an easy way to place “idea bubbles” over a person’s head in a photo image or video clip?

Any way to do this?  Size it?  Place it? Then have it show then go on precise cues?

Thanks!

[borate]

Place the bubble on a higher (overlay) track than the background, precisely where and for how long you want it to appear.

Click the FX icon at the bottom-left of the clip thumbnail or EFFECTS in the menu bar and use POSITION, SCALE or MOTION to size and position it.  (This is picture-in-picture.)

If the bubble is a transparent png image it should blend in very well.

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

• Load your video to Video Track 1.
• Open dual preview windows from Options/Display. (This is useful.)
• Click File ............ Select options as below......

• Select from Speech Bubbles and Download..... Bubble selected appears in Image bin . There are "Speech" bubbles and "Idea" bubbles" in the NCH library.  For this example I used a simple speech bubble

• Drag bubble image to Video Track 2.
• Click FX and add a Scale effect to reduce bubble to suitable size. You can monitor this in the Sequence preview side of the dual preview display
• Click the green + and add a Position effect to place the reduced bubble in desired position.You can monitor this in the Sequence preview window.
• Add a text clip
• Adjust size/font/colour to suit the bubble.This text image will be placed on Video Track 3
• Click the FX on the text image and use the Position effect to place text inside the bubble using the Sequence preview display to monitor the result.
• Adjust Bubble and speech clips so they have the same length and are of a suitable duration. Group them if you feel it is necessary.

• Move the two image clips along the timeline so they appear together at the required time.

Hope this helps

Nat