DVDA Picture Compilation Background

[Mike Kujbida]

When you bring an image into Vegas (either portrait or landscape), you need to tell it to match your project properties or you’ll end up with black bars or what you’re experiencing.
What’s happening to you isn’t cropping but a result of the image not matching project properties.
Open Pan/Crop, right-click and choose Match Output Aspect, resize the image to the correct size and then rotate it.
Doing that should hopefully get you what you want.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

I tried to duplicate your setup quickly here at work. I setup a widescreen project and then dropped a picture that was oriented vertically onto the timeline. If you go into the Pan/Crop and set your rotation to either 270 or 90 (depending on which way the camera was rotated when the picture was taken), your picture will be oriented the way you want, which I believe you have done. Next grab a “handle” (corner box) in Pan/Crop and stretch the box to the width of the picture as you see it in the Pan/Crop window (i.e. it will still be oriented vertically). I have taken a screen shot of what I’m talking about and displayed it below. Pic on top is the Pan/Crop window, Pic on bottom is what is being displayed on screen.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Antoine Guy]

Thanks Andrew – You hit the nail on the head. A little bit tedious, but At least I’m able to achieve what I want. Many thanks…

[Antoine Guy]

Just realised the quick way!

Right click image
Properties
Media Tab
Rotation

That’s all you need to do!!
Thanks for your help anyway – I’ve just put that up incase someone else has the same query.

[Andrew Lenczycki]

You’re close! If you’re not going to do “pan and scan” across the pictures, get one of the rotated pictures the way you want (correct orientation), then right-click on that picture (event) on the timeline. On the context-sensitive menu, select Copy. Now go to any of the other pictures that need the same rotation treatment, right-click on them and select Paste Event Attributes. You can do the paste event attributes to one picture at a time, or use the Windows shift+left-click or Ctrl+left-click to select contiguous events or non-contiguous events.

Good Luck!

Andrew Lenczycki

[Antoine Guy]

Excellent!!
Thank you!! Enjoy your weekend!