Multiple clips moving across over a background

[MikeMattke]

I am finishing my last project on my Avio. I want to have the digital hotcakes image of the American flag in the background and then I have shots of "stars" with messages on them our kids made for President Obama. I would like to take those individual clips and have them move across the screen while the flag waves in the background. Which software piece should I use and how complicated?

I also submitted this to Chet as my first use of membership to his site. I want to see who answers first, one of my esteemed colleagues or the Casablanca Expert.

thanks!

[CasablancaExpert]

Mike,

I am in the process of providing a detailed answer for you, you could use either PIP Studio or PIP Studio 2... with multiple student stars, assuming you want one at a time maybe - with the voice-over/audio to come thru on each one... this could be quite complicated. Very do-able but a bit of work. I will provide you the detailed instructions on the Ask The Expert section of my website: http://www.CasablancaExpert.com

Regards,
Chet

[MikeMattke]

Chet - The stars are static shots that I wanted to just move across the background scene from right to left. There might be like 12 of these static scenes, with no audio.

[CasablancaExpert]

Thanks for the clarification Mike -- I liked your scenario so much, I have decided to include it as one of the topics I will be covering tomorrow in the Members Only Webinar!.
I know, you may be in class at that time - but as a member to my new website you will have access to the streaming video from the webinar that you can playback anytime that is convenient to you (and you'll be able to download and print the step by step instructions for the effect.

I am electing to provide the tutorial using PIP Studio 2 -- the original incarnation of PIP Studio (which is still a great program) I would need to split the original/background video up into segments to have different PIPs moving throughout the segment. PIP Studio 2 can be applied onto the Storyboard in the Image Processing screen which, in my mind, allows a much easier approach to this production task.


Regards,
Chet

P.S. And after the session tomorrow, I will post the instructions on the Ask the Expert pages and also email them directly to you.