How to animate footprints

Margaret-Keckler wrote on 6/24/2023, 11:59 AM

Hey there! I'm using Magix Photostory Deluxe 2023 v.-22.0.3.150. I use Window 11 Pro on a MSI Laptop with 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900H 2.90 GHz and 64 gig RAM.

I'm very much a newbie, and am doing a project for my family. I want to animate foot prints (well, paw prints actually) as if they are walking across the screen diagonally on a title slide. Hoping someone has an easy, 'relatively' straightforward way of doing this. Or... even a complicated, round-a-bout way.

Any assistance is gladly welcomed! Thank you, in advance!!

~MK

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browj2 wrote on 6/26/2023, 8:01 AM

@Margaret-Keckler

Hi,

Do you actually have a paw print image or video available? With transparent background?

If so, then you will need to animate the image by using the Size/Position/Rotation effects and keyframing.

If not, take a look at the Movie Template Pets. Import it and it will create a folder called "pets" in the root of where your projects get stored. You can then use the elements by themselves by importing them into other projects.

Start a new project.

There are a few video clips of just paws going across the screen that are now available in the above folder and you can import the one that you want and play with it.

Unfortunately, and unless I'm mistaken, PhotoStory does not have the Chromakey effect, otherwise you could get rid of the blue background and use just the paws video with your background. Magix Movie Studio Platinum/Suite has this effect.

John CB

Margaret-Keckler wrote on 6/26/2023, 8:17 AM

Thanks! That is what I was looking for!

~MK

johnebaker wrote on 6/26/2023, 4:44 PM

@Margaret-Keckler

AS @browj2 has commented this can be done with a PNG image with transparent background, there is no Chromakey effect in Photostory.

There is a hoop to jump through - Photostory appears to have 4 tracks only, however if you duplicate the footprint image by using the Ctrl + Mouse drag downwards you can add more tracks to the project. the layout of the images should be as seen in the video below.

To make the footprints appear more realistic - rotate the footprint images by 3 - 6 degrees between 'steps' from the rotation angle set on the first step.

HTH

John EB
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