How can I insert an arrow into a frame in Movie Edit Pro 15?

MImoviemaker wrote on 9/28/2009, 5:58 PM

I have Movie Edit Pro 15 and I'm trying to edit some football highlight films. I'd like to insert an arrow to point to someone for about 1 second, or highlight someone with a circle around them. Any idea how to do this?

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asoeli wrote on 9/29/2009, 3:17 AM

The easiest way is perhaps to use Text Editor. Activate this, and click Font. There are lots of different types, if you find Wingdings 3, there are many different arrows. Each arrow correspond to a certain letter, you must experiment. "e" and "d" is a big arrow. You move the arrow to correct place with the sliders on top and left side of the small window.

Try this !

ralftaro wrote on 10/1/2009, 4:18 AM

Hi,

The quickest and easiest way is probably to use one of the provided decoration elements, which will be superimposed over your video footage and can be positioned and rotated easily through the video movement functions. In your mediapool, switch to the "Effects" tab and go to the following sub section: "Design elements" => "Image objects" => "Pointer". You pick the pointer your want to use on the right-hand side (your video object must be selected in the timeline) and the image/animation will be superimposed over your video. You can easily resize and position it in the preview Window using your mouse.

Good luck. Feel free to ask if you need more help with this.

EditorJim wrote on 10/23/2019, 4:58 PM

I got the arrow onto the photo, but I cannot resize or rotate it. (I want to make it smaller, and rotated slightly.)

browj2 wrote on 10/23/2019, 5:16 PM

Hi,

This thread is 10 years old. You should have started a new one and indicated which version of MEP that you're using.

That said, click on the arrow, go to Effects, View/Animation, Size/Position and change the zoom factor, and / or simply resize the dashed box around the arrow, rotate and move it to where you want in the preview monitor.

To rotate, use the rotate handle or go to Rotation/Mirror and make adjustments there.

If you want to adjust the duration of the arrow on the timeline, ungroup it from the main object. Then you can lengthen, shorten the duration, and move the object on the timeline.

John CB

emmrecs wrote on 10/24/2019, 3:54 AM

@EditorJim

As @browj2 quite rightly comments, this thread was started over 10 years ago. Please do not resurrect such old questions, but rather start a new thread.

This one will now be closed.

Jeff
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