Cookie Cutter

Use the Cookie Cutter effect to create picture-in-picture effects or to crop your video.

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Cookie Cutter (Preset=Circle, Center)

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Description

Color Sliders

Click the arrow to show or hide the color controls to set the color of the border around the cutout..

You can use the color picker, type color values (or names), or use the eyedropper to sample a color from your screen.

Shape

Choose a setting from the drop-down list to determine the cutout shape.

Then

Determines what part of the video image is revealed/masked:

  • Cut everything apart from section:

    The cutout shape forms a window which displays your video.

  • Cut section:

    The cutout shape covers your video and the area outside the shape is visible.

Feather

Drag the slider to determine how smoothly the cutout border fades into the background.

Borders

Drag the slider to determine the size of the border around the cutout shape.

Repeat X

Drag the slider to repeat the cutout shape along the horizontal axis by the number of times specified.

Repeat Y

Drag the slider to repeat the cutout shape along the vertical axis by the number of times specified.

Size

Drag the slider to set the size of the selected cutout shape.

Center

Enter the coordinates for the center of the effect into the text boxes or drag the circle on the position map to the desired location.

Click the arrow to show or hide the center controls.

Perform any of the following actions to set the center of the cutout within your project's video frame:

  • Drag the point in the position box:

  • Type coordinates in the position box.0.00, 0.00 represents the lower-left corner of the frame, 0.50, 0.50 represents the center, and 1.00, 1.00 represents the upper-right corner.

Stereoscopic 3D depth

Drag the slider to adjust the horizontal alignment of the left and right-eye views to set the perceived position of the

  • video relative to screen depth

  • cutout relative to screen depth