@Greg123

Hi,

Further to what John EB said, you put the background on track 1, as usual, and the foreground, what sits on top, on a higher numbered track. Then make the latter smaller using Size/Position.

See my tutorials on Size/Position/Rotation.

The third one has examples.

John CB

so frustrating ! I "applied" and what? I cannot see anything. John CB doesn't explain it clearly.

The same I found in editing basic titles - in Movie Edit 2016 there was a text box with a handle to rotate that text, now in Movie Suite 2022 there are two separate operations - one to apply a text and another , found in different section, to rotate that text box... :(((

@Greg123 Hi, what is hard about what John CB shows in the vid?, one clip on top of the other, then the one on top reduced in size & repositioned.

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@Greg123

Hi

. . . . John CB doesn't explain it clearly . . . .

There is a checking process for tutorials created and uploaded, by any member of the forum.

Tutorials are checked through actual testing of the decribed procedures for reproducibility, accuracy and clarity before they are authorised for publication in the forum.

. . . . in Movie Edit 2016 there was a text box with a handle to rotate that text, now in Movie Suite 2022 there are two separate operations - one to apply a text and another , found in different section, to rotate that text box . . . .

True, however in MEP 2016 for any degree of precision in placement and rotation - the rotation handle on the Text object being an 'approximation' control - you still had to make two more switches - one to Rotation effect for a more accurate rotaion setting and, if required, then a second switch to the Size and Position effect to adjust the position with any degree of accuracy.

With the latest version you only have to make one switch to the combined Size/Position/Rotation effect to accurately set the size, position and rotation.

HTH

John EB
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@Greg123

Hi Greg.

A lot has changed between the release of MEP 2016 and the now rebranded to Movie Studio 2023.

Each release having small and sometimes large updates to how it works. I would think the program now behaves a lot differently to what you were used to.

If by your statement

I "applied" and what? I cannot see anything

I assume you mean you applied the Size, Position, Rotation effect.

Once you click the applied button you get the effect controls appear. The first two dialog boxes in the top left hand side are the dimensions of the clip. Highlight and hold down the left mouse button on either number for the height or width dimension and then move the mouse upward to increase the dimension or down to decrease the dimension. It's the same as having a slider control but without the slider appearing. This is becoming a more common way of doing things in various programs now. Equally you could just type the size you want the image to be in pixels into one of the boxes and the other dimension will change with it if you leave the boxes linked. Once you have the size you want you can grab the image showing in the monitor and place it where you want it to be within the background image.

I hope that helps.

Ray.

Thank you, I finally figured this out ! :))