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DVDA Picture Compilation Background
Hi All
I have a picture compilation in DVDA. Because I choose to Letterbox for my images, invariably I will have black bands at the sides. I wish that these ‘bands’ are purple. ie I want a widescreen purple background to my compilation. DVDA wont let me add another video track. (I wanted to then take a purple background and put it above the images track). Is there anyway I can achieve this?
Many Thanks
Antoine
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16 Replies
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I don’t believe you will be able to do that from within DVDA.
1) You will have to go back into Vegas and setup your project to be Widescreen (16:9) in your project properties.
2) Put a Generated Media solid color (purple) onto your bottom track.
3) Put your pictures on a track above this.
4) Don’t set your pictures to match aspect ratio in the Pan/Crop area, which will leave them as standard (4:3) layout.In essence, you will create a widescreen project (with a purple background), that has standard (4:3) format pictures displayed in the center of this.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Thank you – I feared that may be the case!
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Should be no “fear”, just go back to your Vegas project and make the few changes noted and you should be good to go.
Andrew Lenczycki
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Actually, i’m having a few problems with some photos which need rotation. In DVDA this was simple – you just pressed the rotate icon.
In Vegas this is proving a bit trickier. I go into pan/crop and as you suggested I make sure the maintain aspect ratio is set to no. I then type eg 270 degrees in angle of rotation. However, Vegas seems to keep the width constant, resulting in the top and bottom being cropped. Any ideas? -
I rotate my pictures before I bring them into Vegas using IrfanView (a great app that’s free!!).
If they’re in portrait mode, then you will have to do some cropping as they won’t fit a 4:3 or a 16:9 screen. -
Sure, I realise I can rotate before import, and I may well have to do that. But is there not any way in Vegas equivalent to the rotate function in DVDA? (by the way, I’m happy to letterbox)
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Actually, even if I rotate before import, Vegas will not show the whole image because it appears to want to use a constant width!
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Pan/Crop is the best way to do this in Vegas.
Rotate the first desired image in Pan/Crop but don’t do any other cropping to it just yet.
Copy the image.
Click on the next one to select it, right-click and select Paste Event Attributes.
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Vegas brings events in according to your project properties and scales/displays things according to those settings which is why Pan/Crop is almost mandatory.
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I tried this before but it doesn’t work. I’m not interested in cropping at all. I entered the angle of rotation in pan/crop, but Vegas auto crops the image after rotating. As I mentioned earlier, this seems to be because Vegas will not allow images of less than a certain width.
Just to clarify – I’m trying to rotate a landscape into a portrait without losing aspect ratio and without cropping – obviously the image will be smaller, but I’m happy with this. Another way of describing this is that I want to do exactly what the rotate image icon does in DVDA.
Rotating before import does not work either! Very strange….
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