Thanks John.

I ultimately want to include the edited image in a mp4 standard video created from pics and video clips in Movie Edit.

Not 3D and for viewing on PC or HDTV.

I just used the 3D terminology to give an idea of the kind of movement I was after. You often see old grayscale pictures in a TV ad where a foreground image is seen to be moving in front of the background. All of which were originally 2D only.

@DrGary

Although I have never tried this I think you should be able to achieve something close to what you want by:

1. Create a copy of your source image.
2. On the copy, mask out the elements you do not want to see "moving". Make the masked out area transparent. Alternatively, cut the desired elements from the copy and paste them at the same size as they were originally to a new image.
3. Place the original image on one track of your MEP project.
4. Place the masked/cut copy on a lower track.
5. Use Effects>Size and Position on that lower track to make the masked copy appear to "move" in front of the static original.

In theory this should work but you will need to experiment, I think.

HTH

Jeff

Thanks Jeff. Sounds reasonable to me. Can't wait to give it a shot. I'll let you know in due course.

Jeff, gave your suggestions a try and like you, I was sure they'd work. The theory was sound. However, I cut the section of the image I wanted to make moving, then selected the rest of the image and made transparent. Then pasted the cut section back into that layer. All looked good. Background transparent and foreground with repasted image section.

In MEP, I placed the original image and then in a below track placed the edited image. However, two things emerged:

1. The edited image showed the transparency as "white"
2. When running both images together (original & edited), playback screen always defaulted to the edited image no matter what I did.

Any clues? Thanks, Gary

@DrGary

Hi

. . . . The edited image showed the transparency as "white" . . . .

Assuming you saved the image as a JPG file, they do not support transparency - you need to save the image as a PNG file, item 2 should then be fixed as well

John EB