Sports Highlight Films

I am making football highlight films and was wondering if anyone has had success in placing some type of a highlight feature on a specific player on the field ? Examples are an arrow or circle or square on the featured player only for a brief moment to help coaches to locate the player of their interest.
Thank You

Footballnut wrote:
… when the movie plays and reaches the section with the highlighted segment of the clip the video freezes and the circle I selected is not visable, …
.. on playback within iMovie.
Not in the exported movie …
… as mentioned in the description. That's a 'flaw' of this work-around.
you can use any picture/illustration/symbol you like, as long it contains transparency and is saved as a .png
If you hesitate to invest 200$ in a more elaborated video-editor as FCPX, consider to purchase (40$) and teach yourself Motion5. you have to 'swap' videos (ex- and re-import clips), a lil' inconvenient, but you then have the perfect 'effects machine' for your videos, allowing automatic motion-tracking e.g. to stick a highlight/pointer to some running player, to paint animated graphics on the field etc etc etc.
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I have been asked to do a sports highlights film for someone. I have a ton of game clips and photos. So I want to transition between clips and pictures and put some information about the plays such as stats. I also want to be able to accent the player that the clip is focusing on. Maybe have a oval around him or something to make the focus be on him. Then I want to add some background music. I have been messing with Premier and After Effects. It seems I could use either one. What is the best tool for this type of project?

What is the best tool for this type of project?
Both! While your setup sounds effects heavy, and you will use AE a lot, you wouldn't wanna build the rough timing in AE when in Premiere with its realtime support it would be more intuitive, especially when syncing to the sound, would you? Also, Premiere can do simple ovals/ vignettes. It has the leave Color and similar effects for highlights. It has a built-in color correction. It even has simple mask shapes. And of course it has a title tool, which isn't all too shabby, either. The point really is to work as efficiently as you can. You would only use AE, if you need something that you can't do in Premiere.
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It should work if you have followed Karsten's instructions to the letter. The key for me was to ensure that Project Properties was set to Crop for Initial Photo Placement, before inserting the .png Picture in Picture image. Also, don't click on any of the image settings in the Preview window (Fit, Crop or Ken Burns) when sizing and positioning the PIP, as that may destroy the transparency.
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I'm putting together a football highlight film and I was wondering if someone could help me with an editing technique.
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SpeakEasy_05 wrote:
i want to make a football highlight video...
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https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09tricks
read my advice about transparent-png.
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I'm an amateur PE11 user making a sport highlight film from game clips. I'd like to find the easiest way to highlight a single player as they move. it doesn't have to be there throughout the entire clip, just as he enters the play or becomes interesting in it. There is a written tutorial in these discussions but it is for PE7 and quite arduous. I have 40 clips to add this feature to so I was hoping someone had a clever way in PE11 to do this. I tried a freeze frame but it throws the audio off and only works for those moments when the eye is already on the player. I need people to be able to locate the player on the screen. An opaque circle for about 100 frames would work nicely.
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Hunt
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altuser100
Since Hunt's Premiere Pro model does not address the specifics of your Premiere Elements 11 Windows situation, please let me offer the Premiere Elements 11 perspective on this with regard to establishing the circle for keyframing as per my post 3.
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In the middle of bringing in old 16mm movies to FCE. There are times when it seems as if the movie, after it has been captured, is running a little slow when viewed in the viewer? However, one of the short movies had sound, and this was captured perfectly. If there is any difference, it is extremely subtle. The one time I it was perhaps more obvious, was when I watched as someone dove into the water. The splash, seemed to me to be someone off, but not by much.
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