Repositioning video within frame

[jlietz]

Hi,

If I wanted to reposition a video so that the entire original frame was visible in the top right corner, leaving black bars at the left and bottom, what editors would support this and what would this kind of feature or action be called?

For example

|------------------------------------|
|       |                            |
|       |                            |
|       |                            |
|       |      Video                 |
|       |                            |
|       |                            |
|       |                            |
|       |____________________________|
|                                    |
| text text text text                |
|____________________________________|

Thanks in advance.

[Alex_ander]

AviSynth (resize an add borders of any color). There's also a Subtitle filter for simple text addition but not much flexible in positioning text.

[manono]

AviSynth can do it pretty easily. Create your text in a black still BMP or similar. Then resize the active video and position it in the upper right of the text image. Using the Overlay command for that is one way:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Overlay

If you really want to just add black, without adding text, then add black to the left and bottom using the AddBorders command, and then resize the whole thing:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AddBorders

I suppose all kinds of NLE programs can do similar things.

[guns1inger]

In Vegas you would use Track Motion or Pan and Crop. Premiere also has a Track Motion type effect. It is pretty standard stuff.