bizarre ‘stretch to fill frame’ behavior

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Stretch to fill stretches to fill frame what you crop.
If your image is 32*32 pixel, set pan/crop to stretch,
but width to 720, height to 576 (since you are living in PALland:))
Play with the x/y center to position your logo.
If you want the logo to be smaller increase the crop with/heigth.
Or decrease them if you want the logo to be larger.

Hope I could help.

By(t)e
K.L.

[Mike Kujbida]

… Vegas(7) insists on stretching it to full screen.

Unfortunately that’s the way Vegas handles things 🙁
You have 2 choices here.
#1 is to create a full-size transparent frame, drop the properly positioned graphic on it and position accordingly.
#2 is to use the zoom & pan features built into Pan/Crop to position your graphic.

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Guys,

Mike, I guess I’ll have to use option 1 as the zoom and pan features in pan/crop don’t allow me to get it small enough. (not even to pixel for pixel!)

Do you understand what the ‘stretch to fill frame’ button does? I can’t figure the logic.

Alan

[Mike Kujbida]

“I guess I’ll have to use option 1 as the zoom and pan features in pan/crop don’t allow me to get it small enough.”

Small images shouldn’t be a problem as you can zoom in quite far.
How small is the image anyway?

“Do you understand what the ‘stretch to fill frame’ button does?”

I didn’t so I played with turning it on and off to see what happened when I zoomed or panned an image. Try it and see for yourself.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

[Alan Lacey] “Do you understand what the ‘stretch to fill frame’ button does?”

As it says. It stretches the the image you pan/crop.
To make it more clear:

Let your project’s size 720*576.
Let your image size 100*100.
When you get this onto the timline, it will be enlarged to 576*576.
You can then crop a part of this image: in this situation the image
size does not change, but you see the cropped part only.
Set the width/height to 10, x/y center to 5 and “stretch” to NO – you see the upper left corner of your image, but again it’s enlarged by a factor of 5.76 so actually 57*57 pixel on the screen.
Now set “stretch to fill” to YES, what you get is that the of image
fills the projects frame size, 720*576, so you see again a 576*576 picture. If you switch “maintain aspect” off, it will get wider to fill horizontally too (image distorted:)).

What you really want is the opposite effect: making the picture to look smaller. You can do this by cropping a LARGER area then the image actually is.
So, your image is 100*100, you want it to be displayed as 100*100 then you have to crop as follows:
Set “Stretch” to YES, width to 720, heigth to 576. That implements some “zooming out”.
Until now I didn’t discovered, that you cannot extend the cropping area to be larger than 8 times the original image.

Another option for you is to use track motion to display your logo in a size sou need.

It’s usage is more intuitive, try it 😉

By(t)e
K.L.

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks guys I’ll give it a go.

Alan