With the Picture-in-Picture effect, you arrange a photo or video against a background generated from the photo or video. This lets you achieve an interesting foreground-background collage. The effect is great for presenting portrait photos or portrait videos in an appealing way.

You can find the effect inthe Toolbox under the Objects tab  in the Object Effects section.

Drag the Picture-in-Picture effect from the Toolbox to the Timeline. You will now see a colored box in the Timeline. Insert your image or video here. To do this, get the image or video into the Timeline using the Toolbox File browser tab, for example, or drag an Image object or Video object into the Picture-in-Picture effect to insert an image or video.

Only one image or video can be inserted into the Picture-in-Picture effect at a time.

After you have inserted the image or video , click the colored frame of the Picture-in-Picture effect in the Timeline.

Background settings:

In the Properties section you can now set the blur strength for the background image. With the setting 0, the background is shown without blur.

Zoom strength: Determine whether the background should be played with an animated zoom effect during the display duration and how much it is zoomed in.For the background not to be zoomed, select "0" for zoom strength.

Under Color effect you can choose between the options Normal (background without color effect), Colorize (background is colored with selected color), Black & White and Sepia for the background design. The color selector only becomes active when you activate Colorize.

Apply image effect: If the foreground image has an image effect (e.g. frame or similar), this image effect can also be applied to the background. VIDEO VISION   STAGES  Use the button of the same name to open the Image editor.

Use Fade in and Fade out to specify how the background is faded in and out.
The basic setting Fade in with image (fade in) takes over the fade in identically from the image.
Apply from image transfers the fade in from the image as well - but if the image fade in contains random parameters, they will also be applied randomly to the background. If you don't want any fade in for the background , activate None. With the fade in option Alphablending, the background is faded in with it, regardless of which fade in the image has.

Stretch: If the box is checked, the background will be stretched instead of cropped.

Foreground settings:

Apply color effect: The color effect applied to the background can also be applied to the foreground.

The border distance determines how much smaller the foreground is shown on the background. Select 0% so that a portrait format, for example, is fitted to full height.

If Scale caption with image is activated, an image caption will be scaled down proportionally to the resized image.

Foreground shadow:

Add a shadow to the foreground via Activate shadow. Specify the color of the shadow, the angle, the distance and the blur for the shadow.

The zoom movement for the background can be fixed with a defined random value. The same zoom direction is then always visible each time the video is played. Click on the Cube to obtain a defined value. Then check the zoom movement during playback. Click on the Cube again to obtain a new value. Click on the Cloverleaf to return to random mode.

3 Save your own variants of the effect

In the Mini-templates section, you will find different preset variants of the Picture-in-picture effect. On the thumbnails in the gallery you can see how the respective template works. Click on the desired template to apply it to your image or video.

You can be in AquaSoft Video Vision and Stages to save the Picture-in-picture effect with your preferred settings as your own Mini-template or save it as a custom object and use it again and again.

Proceed as follows to save the Picture-in-picture effect as a custom object:

- Simply insert the Picture-in-picture effect without an image into Timeline.
- Set the properties as you would like them (if necessary, temporarily insert an image and then remove it from the effect)
- Then drag the empty Picture-in-picture effect to Toolbox to save it as a custom template.

You can then use the self-saved effect variant in the same way as the original effect.