Placing a photo in front of video

Mark-Woodson wrote on 12/23/2024, 4:13 PM

I'm using Magix Studio 2025 Platinum Version 24.0.1.221 (UDP3).

All I am wanting to do is place a picture in the foreground of a video (like Picture in picture) but...

  • I want to place the picture whereever I want on the screen
  • I want to be able to increase or decrease the size (like animation) while it is on the screen
  • I want to be able to apply a transition effects to the picture for in/out which only effects the picture not the ebtire screen

In Sony Vegas this was simple.

  • Simple drag the picture to the timeline above the background video
  • Grab the corner of the picture and resize it
  • Click on the picture to move it whereever you want to place it.
  • If you want it to move there was an animation timeline where you could assign a location for the picture to be at a certain time on the timeline.
  • Also right to the left of the imported picture were options for applying a shadow or glow effect.

It was insanely simple. It literally took me longer to type this in than to have done this 3 times in Vegas.

How do you do this on this program?

Can anyone help me?

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AAProds wrote on 12/23/2024, 7:01 PM

@Mark-Woodson

Insanely simple in Magix too. Be aware Magix looks UP, not down.

Put your video on track 1 (audio will be next to it on track 2).

Put your photo on track 3.

Select the photo, go to the Effects tab, choose Size Position Rotation, do what you want to the image, use the top corner handles to set up the fades. lengthen the image by dragging the bottom handles.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Bluray Burner: Pioneer BDR-212D

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

Mark-Woodson wrote on 12/23/2024, 7:04 PM

Thank you I will check that out. The top bottom thing would honestly never have occurred to me. I guess I've been conditioned by what I am used to. I also appreciate your other advice and comments on the other things I posted. Thank you!