VideoPad Editor - Smoothing edges of video, HELP!

[MaxiLikes]

Hello,

Recently I tried making my own intro to use when I upload videos to YouTube. I wanted to add a couple of small videos in the corners of the intro (to make it look nice) when I realised that the edges of these small videos looked very sharp and didn't blend well at all with the background. I tried looking for a tool on VideoPad Editor to smooth the edges into the background so that they didn't stand out so much, but I had no luck.

All I could find was the smoothness effect in the effects menu and all that did was blur the entire video . I would appreciate it if someone could point out the tool that can smooth the edges of the clips (if it exists) or maybe point me in the direction of a program that can do it for me! (preferably cheap/free)

Thanks in advance for the help,

Max

[manono]

And you have to use this VideoPad Video Editor, or you can use something else? Maybe VideoPad doesn't provide such a tool. Ideally you want to smooth both your little video at its edges as well as the larger video around where the smaller one joins it. I think it's called 'feathering'. Does VideoPad have such a thing?

AviSynth with a mask and overlay can do it fairly easily, but if you've never used it there's a learning curve. I don't know if there are any NLEs with such a feature.

[MaxiLikes]

Thanks for your fast reply, I will have a go at AviSynth!

Max

[MaxiLikes]

What I ended up doing was adding a border around the outside of the clip so that it wouldn't look so sharp, it looks great now! Well in my eyes at least :P

Max