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Play a video in a shape

Play a video in a shape

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Play a video in a shape

- [Instructor] On rare occasions, you might find it useful and effective to enhance the appearance of a video clip by having it play inside of an unusual shape instead of the standard rectangular format that all videos normally play in, Now, I say rare occasions because this is definitely an effect you don't want to overuse. Let's take a look at how it works. I'm on slide six of my presentation, and we have our shorter web spot video inserted here. I'll play a few seconds of that. (country music) So, with the video selected, I'm going to come up to the Format tab and here I'll find the video shape menu. And from this menu, you can select from any of these shapes. For example, I'll select this heart shape here. And now instead of a rectangular video, I have a heart-shaped video. (country music) - [Narrator] Welcome to Hansel & Petal, we are a full-service florist specializing-- - [Instructor] But you can see that some shapes can cause problems. Like in this case, where the woman…

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