PowerDirector Tutorials

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Title Designer

• Two tips when customizing title templates
• Tips on adding effects to your titles
• Edit a title template's words
• Start with one of the present fonts and customize it for your project
• Change text appearance using the title designer
• Making the text pop and shrink with the Title Designer
• Tips on adding tracks to a title segment
• How to use multiple texts in title designer
• Scrolling a string of text without keyframing
• Simple changes for impressive title text
• Designing hollow letters and using 4-color gradient in Title Designer
• Make title text temporarily enlarge on the screen
• Set titles on fire with PD 17 Title Special Effects
• Make a title float on water or with the camera action

Title Designer and Objects

• Put backgrounds behind titles and add images or other objects
• Make a lower third with a bar in Title Designer (ver. 17)
• Tips on adding objects and backgrounds to titles
• A more subtle technique for enhancing text with objects
• Save your title designs as custom titles for future use
• Change the font color and/or border of a paragraph
• Animating titles like the 'Star Wars' opening scroll
• Scrolling text or narration content while someone is talking
• Designing a moving title for an interview clip
• Repeatedly invert the color of text and its immediate background
• Create a title text with a custom background

Other Title Tricks

• How to use and modify 3D-like titles
• How to customize 3D titles with your own graphics
• How to underline title text
• How to add lines using color boards
• Make a title appear in the middle of the screen and scroll horizontally
• Sequence your titles to best convey your story
• Scroll text across a lower third color strip
• Basic use of the particles in the title room
• Two ways to create electronic style title cues
• Transition a title from one color to another
• Designing creative titles for narration - Part 1
• Designing creative titles for narration - Part 2

Titler Pro

See the Titler Pro 1.0 and 1.5 section for all the tutorials about using this add-in.

• How to do basic text editing for titles
• Assembling a picture from parts in 3D with Titler Pro
• Rotating text in the middle of the screen with Titler Pro add-in
• A fun titling technique using the Titler Pro add on

Multiple videos on the screen

• Create a newscast style video in video
• Tips on split screen with normal proportions
• Tips on split screen with adjusted proportions
• How to design split screen using grid guidelines
• Crop and keyframe video to share space horizontally in split screen
• How to design a quad-movie project
• Split your screen into three vertical sections and animate how the videos enter for each in this split-screen
• Combining techniques to make useful effects with three videos
• Using chromakey with freeze frames and 3 videos
• Stagger the timing of three clips and finish the edit with music
• Position, freeze, and colorize multiple clips on the screen - part 1
• Position, freeze, and colorize multiple clips on the screen - part 2
• Position, freeze, and colorize multiple clips on the screen - part 3

Multicam

• Editing multiple cameras that shoot one scene simultaneously

Timesavers and Miscellaneous

• Easy way to create a new project from a saved one
• Import content from a non-copyrighted DVD
• Tag elements in your library to access as an independent group when building projects
• Simplify reusing video content from one project to another
• Reuse content and structure from one project to another
• Capture webcam video for use in PowerDirector
• Batch render multiple projects
• Speed up rendering with the SVRT tool
• Setting the destination for your batch produced files
• Add the Magic Music option
• Emulate 3-D results with 2D footage
• Quickly crop an image or create a quick 16:9 or 4:3 background
• Take the elements of the project and save them to edit elsewhere
• Tips on using screen capture for an instructional video
• Configuring Screen Recorder 2 in Power Director 17 Ultimate
• Ways to overlay a simple graphic to create a highlight
• Considerations when trimming clips
• Tips on multitrack editing using a garbage track
• Producing a movie from part of your timeline with the range tool
• Treat a complex timeline segment as a single PiP object with the range tool
• Using the range tools to manage vertical blocks
• Tips on using styles when designing particles
• Masking the left and right sides when using smartphone video
• Use a vertical smart phone video in a 16 x 9 project
• Tips for using the video stabilizer
• Detect scenes in a video clip in PowerDirector 17
• Use Precut to extract segments from video files in PD 17
• Combining multiple projects into a final master with nesting in PD 17
• Changes in Paint Designer in PD 17 from earlier versions
• Tips on changing elements linked to your library or timeline
• Two methods for adjusting the horiziontal of a video clip

COLOR DIRECTOR

• How to navigate the preferences and screen layout in Color Director
• Beginner tips on using the color presets
• Using tone controls to change color
• Tips on using the information in the histogram
• Apply the mask to an object in the video and adjust it frame by frame
• Tips on using the selection mask
• Use keyframe controls in ColorDirector - part 1
• Use keyframe controls in ColorDirector - part 2

Subtitles

• Tips on getting started with subtitles
• Importing and exporting text used in subtitles
• Tips on formatting and placing subtitle text
• Different ways of positioning your subtitles
• Customizing your subtitles
• More on creating subtitles
• Additional tips on subtitles

Power Tools

• Use slow motion to slow down an entire clip or a segment of a clip
• Sep through the Magic Movie Wizard

Theme Designer

• Reassign images and pictures in a theme or add content
• Modify some element of movies and pictures within your current theme
• Add sequences from other themes to the one you are working on

Chromakey

• Make green background transparent with chromakey
• Fixing a chromakey issue with undesired transparency
• Use multiple keys with Chromakey in PD 17

Color boards

• Change the size, border, background, and create new colors
• How to resize and add motion to color boards
• 3 tips on using backgrounds in the Media Room
• Make a line graphic that grows from the middle by using key frames
• Use color boards to create the illusion of a strobe effect
• Use a color board as a parallelogram or trapezoid

Collage Designer

• Make a collage on your own even if you don't have the collage designer
• Design a grid for your collage with Microsoft Paint

Working with still images

• Move (pan) the camera across a still image
• Zoom in and out on a still image with keyframes
• Bring in rectangular pieces of an image in to one picture with movement
• Assembling a picture from parts in 3D with Titler Pro
• Pan across an image with Magic Motion
• Tips on using pan and zoom for a Ken Burns effect on still images
• Tips on using pan and zoom for Ken Burns effect on still images - part 2
• Add motion to an image that overlays a video
• A second look at using Magic Motion but with key frames for precision
• Extract and overlay photo date on photo images
• How to make an object or text appear to blink
• Tips on using PNG and JPG files
• Tips on converting 3:2 DSLR images to 16:9 images that fill the screen

Motion and Speed

• Create a time shift for part of a clip or an entire clip and adjust the speed of that segment
• Tips on applying a time lapse effect
• Adjust zoom and pan within a time-shift segment of your clip
• Tips on zooming in and out with crop and zoom
• Move a spokesperson horizontally to make room for titles or images
• Make the video pause and remain on the screen
• Tips for effectively using freeze frames
• Design a freeze frame clone effect
• Insert a freeze frame and modify one track only
• Create a freeze frame and label a screen object

Blending

• Use presets to blend with your videos to create special effects
• Tips on blending clips on the timeline

Combining Techniques

• Combining tools part 1 - using crop and zoom and markers
• Combining tools part 2 - using still pictures, adjusting transitions, and duration
• Using the B-Roll technique (for interviews or documentaries)
• Accent complex titles with complex titles and expanding lines
• Swirl in introductory images of key people in your project
• Animating a straight line and moving icon on a map
• Animating an irregular trail on a map
• Plotting a course on a map
• Adding an object to an animated trail on a map
• Creating a square output for Facebook or other applications
• Steps to create a flaming look for letters
• Ways to create a shattered glass effect with an object
• Begin a clip with a growing circle and text inside it
• Add media and transitions to an interview to present more than a monologue
• Make an image flip as if on a playing card - part 1
• Make an image flip as if on a playing card - part 2
• Make an image flip as if on a playing card - part 3

Opening Scenes

• Designing a dramatic opening sequence - part 1
• Designing a dramatic opening sequence - part 2
• Adjust the timing of text to music for dramatic opening credits
• Combining techniques for a Christmas clip

Countdown Timers

• The best way to create a timer and make it portable so you can use it in multiple videos
• Create a video that counts down the seconds until an event begins - (Use above method)
• Use the Time Stamp effect to create a countdown timer
• Add a basic elapsed time timer to your project

Lower Third with Color boards

• Create a basic lower third with color boards and titles
• Tips on designing a moving lower third
• Customize a newscast title template
• Making a classy lower-third with color boards and keyframing
• Matching timing and text of color board as a lower third

Tutorial Creator Pack

• Using title elements in the Tutorial Creator Pack - part 1
• Using title elements in the Tutorial Creator pack - part 2
• Tips on creating title elements like those in the Tutorial Creator Pack

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