Precinct Omega

Playing with PowerDirector

Added 2024-04-05 14:27:22 +0000 UTC

I mentioned on the Discord that I've gone in on Cyberlink PowerDirector 365 (and people give me grief for Horizon Wars: Midnight Dark!) as my new video editing platform and I'm playing with the tools it offers me.

I've downloaded this clip from iStock (for which I get free access included with my PD subscription, which is great), then I added the sticker effect, gave it a shadow and animated it to (kind of) track the one aircraft across the sky.

This is purely a proof-of-concept and practice work, but being able to use stickers to highlight specific elements on the tabletop and then animate them to track their movement is going to be very useful. There are bloody thousands of stickers to play with, included in the software. It's a lot more generous in that respect that Movavi ever was, who made me pay extra for effects packs.

Anyway, this is just a very basic start. I'm scripting HTP videos for Midnight Dark and will start putting them together over the next few weeks.