Quick Guide: How to Use Stickers in PowerDirector

Four steps to size a sticker and get its animation to behave.

Updated Oct. 16, 2026 · 1 min read

Steps

1Size and style the sticker

Double-click the sticker on the timeline, then adjust it in the three sections on the left of its panel: Position / Size / Flip, Opacity / Fade / Blend, and Border / Shadow.

These are the same controls a clip gets. On busy footage, a border is the quickest way to make a sticker stand out.

A sticker boxed on the PowerDirector timeline, and the Position / Size / Flip, Opacity / Fade / Blend, and Border / Shadow sections boxed on the left of its panel.

2Set how long the sticker stays

Drag the sticker's edges on the timeline.

By default the animation loops for that whole length, so making the sticker longer doesn't slow the animation down.

The right edge of a sticker boxed as it is dragged along the PowerDirector timeline, with a Change duration label and a tooltip showing the new end and duration.

3Choose what happens at the end

Click Advanced at the bottom right of the sticker panel. In the timeline of Advanced Overlay Editing, right-click the sticker and open After Image Sequence Ends.

Choose Freeze on Last Frame to play the animation once and then hold its final frame.

The right-click menu in the PowerDirector Advanced Overlay Editing timeline, with After Image Sequence Ends boxed and Freeze on Last Frame boxed in its submenu.

4Fit the animation to the duration

Set the length on the timeline first, then in Advanced, right-click the sticker and choose Change Speed to Fit Current Duration.

Order matters, since the command re-times to whatever duration it finds.

The right-click menu in the PowerDirector Advanced Overlay Editing timeline, with Change Speed to Fit Current Duration highlighted.

We tested these steps in PowerDirector 365 version 23.6 on Windows.

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