VSDC and various shapes (like double arrows)

[Duderino]

Hi all,

so I've been using VSDC for a while now and made some simple but nice videos.

One thing though seems overly complicated for me and I wonder if I'm simply doing it wrong or if VSDC come to its limits with creating shapes:
For example I made several arrows out of the free shape tool by placing all the shape points seperately. That seemed pretty complicated already but i thouhgt hey, once some shape are made i can just adjust and group them together like making a double arrow out of one single arrow. When I group souch a compound shape (like the double arrow) or make a sprite out of it I cant even rotate that anymore.

How do you create descriptive shapes in videos just like in a way you are used to do that in Power Point? I'm about to create several videos but if that thing is going to be pretty time consuming I might have to think about other tools (also for that I'd appreciated your experiences).

Thanks for any advice!

[TreeTops]

If the arrows are not to be moving in your video then use a photo editing program to create an arrow and save it as a JPG file and overlay it in your video editing program. That's the easy way I do it. If the arrow has to move around in your video then most video editing programs can do that also.

[Duderino]

If the arrows are not to be moving in your video then use a photo editing program to create an arrow and save it as a JPG file and overlay it in your video editing program. That's the easy way I do it. If the arrow has to move around in your video then most video editing programs can do that also.

Thanks TreeTops. In fact I did that one time when I used an arrow with a sort of brush style. If there has to be a tiny change to it you cannot really tweak it a lot and it ends up in a similar situation. Nevertheless your idea is still good, because it is way easier and faster to design shapes in any editing software!!