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
- Modify a preset title that contains a particle
- Multiple use of the slide text motion in a single title
- Creating animated titles with motion graphics - PD 18
- Overview of the 44 animated title with motion graphics templates in PD 18
- Adjust the timing of titles to match object movement
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
- Using the callout pack and shape designer (PD 18 and above)
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
- Making titles peel off the screen
- Tips on applying transitions to titles
- Incorporate an animated revealer into your title
- Change the timing of transitions in the Title Room
- Reveal a title as if it were behind an object
- Move a title behind an irregular object
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
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
- Three ways to change the proportional look of your project
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
- Keep subject in color - all else to black and white - with motion
- Time-saving editing with PowerDirector and ColorDirector