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DianeBullock-32's avatar
DianeBullock-32
Community Member
9 months ago

Transparent masks or shape crop for video

I wanted to animate some videos,  as shapes that fly in. I've seen it where one video flies in from the top and is the shape of a triangle and one flies from the bottom as a triangle. They then meet in the middle to join and fill the whole screen. (If that makes sense). Anyone know how to mask/ crop a video to do this please?

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  • TomKuhlmann's avatar
    TomKuhlmann
    Staff
    9 months ago

    That's not something you can create in Storyline. You'd probably do it in something like After Effects. 

    You could possibly simulate something similar. Here's an idea:

    • Create an image from the first frame.
    • Cut the image into the pieces you want
    • Assemble the image on the Storyline slide and apply entrance animations
    • Put the video on the slide underneath everything. Cover it up or hide it.
    • Animate the images in and when they fall into place have the images disappear and the video appear and play.

    PowerPoint is also a good video creator. You could possibly do something in PPT since it has more robust video features and can use teh shape and video and then save it all as a video and then bring into Storyline.

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