Si j’ai bien compris ce que vous demandez, j’ai réalisé ceci avec les images que vous nous avez transmis. Voici comment j’ai procédé. Image de fond sur V1 Toutes les autres à la suite sur V2 Sur toutes les images de V2, mettre en premier un filtre Canal Alpha: Ajuster Sur mon projet de 1280 x 720, je me suis fixé une hauteur d’image de 460. Sur toutes les images de V2 dont la hauteur est inférieure à 460, mettre un SPR en mode distort et agrandir la hauteur à 460. Bien entendu, cela déforme l’image, mais je pense que cela reste acceptable. Sur l’image dont la hauteur est supérieure à 460 (40.jpg), Mettre un filtre SPR sans changer les paramètres. Mettre tout de suite après un Crop: Rectangle de 1280 x 460 de hauteur. Revenir sur le filtre SPR et ajuster la position verticale pour centrer l’image dans le recadrage. Et pour finir, appliquer les transitions.
If I understood correctly what you are asking, I made this with the images you sent us.
Here is how I did it.
Background image on V1
All the others in a row on V2
On all the images of V2, set a filter Alpha Channel: Adjust first
On my 1280 x 720 project, I want the image height to be 460.
On all V2 images with a height lower than 460, set a SPR in distort mode and enlarge the height to 460. Of course, this will distort the image, but I think it is still acceptable.
On the image whose height is higher than 460 (40.jpg), put a SPR filter without changing the parameters. Immediately afterwards put a Crop: Rectangle of 1280 x 460 height. Go back to the SPR filter and adjust the vertical position to center the image in the crop.
And finally, apply the transitions.
Sorry for the late reply but I needed to take a break from this as it is starting to annoy me now, wasting too much time and for every issue I solve something else pops up… one thing that keeps complicating this thread as well is people are not using the same setup as I am, so here is my file - which I had several issues trying to replicate what you instructed me to do, interested if you run into the same issues as I did on your end: RV 630 - Nulla in mundo pax sincera (Autograph) - Scrolling score.mlt (48.1 KB)
@ineedhelp, did you try @Namna’s approach?
Aside from the transition showing some of the pink colors of the background (thumbnail.png), it solves pretty much all the problems.
That was my latest attempt - it resulted because of step 1, adding the background image to V1, making the scrolling pictures in front invisible, which I could only solve by putting the “screen / overlay” bend mode back on, which makes the entire background come through and renders the whole purpose of the video useless.
I wish I could add bend mode to track V2, I feel like it would potentially solve this issue, but can’t seem to work around it.
Putting aside the conventional way of adding transitions, I came up with this:
It involves using the Mask: Simple Shape filter (with keyframes) instead of transitions.
But honestly, because your images don’t have the same height, it’s a pain in the butt to implement.
If you’re transitioning from a tall image (1.png) to a shorter image (2.jpg):
You need to get a 1-second copy of 1.png an put it on V2 on top and at the beginning of 2.jpg.
To move the mask, you need to keyframe the Horizontal value from 50% to 200%
If you’re transitioning from a short image (2.jpg) to a taller image (5.jpg)
You need to get a 1-second copy of 5.jpg an put it on V2 on top and at the end of 2.jpg.
To move the mask, you need to keyframe the Horizontal value from -100% to 50%
If you had to make transitions that way between only 4 or 5 images, that wouldn’t be so bad.
With 40 images though? It’s doable of course, but that would involve a lot of work, time and hair pulling.
But… It works. And it meets (I think) all your requirements.
I don’t have time in the next few days to make a step by step tutorial for you, but I’ll share my project files. Maybe you can figure it out by studying it.
Good luck
Thank you for the efforts, but it seems the images refuse to stay a consistent size when transitioning - as I am spending too much time and it seems that this software is incapable of doing the kind of editing I need, I can only think of one final last resort which almost certainly won’t work, but it is all I have got - will post the inevitable results of what is probably my final attempt - sadly, I thought I was getting close to a solution but it doesn’t seem like it any more, either way will update soonish.
Hmm… OK, but I used the images you provided. And I seem to remember that you didn’t want to change the size of these images, because if you did, you’d loose important parts.
I understand that.
But that problem should have been dealt with at the very beginning, when you cropped the images from the original sheets of music. They should have all been the same size from the start.
Well, I don’t know. Video editing is a bit like baking a cake for example.
If you use the wrong ingredients, you can’t blame the oven if the cake don’t turn out as expected.
There in lies the difficulty - if I have to crop the images to fit the music, how am I supposed to make them all the same size?
And regarding the last comment, either the software is fit for my purpose or it isn’t - I could understand if I didn’t have the knowledge and ability to do what I need to do, but no one else can seem to figure it out either. Unfortunately
In my opinion, @MusicalBox already gave the best solution.
1.jpg is 1648x458
2.jpg is 1631x408
5.jpg is 1579x585
By default, Shotcut will resize each image to max width or height. You need to apply the Size, Position & Rotate filter to force Shotcut to not resize each photo.
Preparing images through a graphic editor such as Gimp or other programs as MusicalBox has explained, you will avoid all resizing issues.
I used your 1.jpg image with Gimp to make a transparent png image.
Example: (Image may appear to have a white background in the forum)
But this method just creates yet another issue, of the images not stretching to the sides of the screen,
see my last video attachment to understand what I mean.
For a better visual, these are your image sizes within a 1920x1080 resolution. Along with resolution, there is what is called Aspect Ratio, and all three of your images have different Aspect Ratios.
With Gimp and other graphic editors can set a very precise placement of where you want things to be at. You can also scale each graphic layer to what you want.
Perhaps a different approach is to place color on a track below the jpg images. Adjust with the Size, Position & Rotate filter, set to “Distort”. Adjust to the jpg image with the tallest height. The color clip could be split and applied with other filters.
While it isn’t the most ideal, it is one of the better options posted so far - I have been in contact with the maker of the score-video I am imitating, and I am pursuing his method to try and absolve all of my issues with this software.
At this point I am on the final resort, to re-do the entire score from scratch. I have decided I will have fade transitions for each of the 3 three movements, therefore the aspect ratio need only be the same for all images of the 1st movement, all the second movements the same ratio, the third the same, etc.
Though having issues as usual, need the width for all images at 551, but of course the transparency makes the image much larger.
