How do I resize a still image to fit the screen?

[Don Bloom]

PROPERTIES>(uncheck) Maintain Aspect Ratio OR PAN/CROP>(right click) and MATCH OUTPUT RATIO that however will crop the pic and you will have to adjust the position of it.

Don

[Jsteinamite]

Thanks Don. This is helpful. Can you give me a little more detailed info on the second option that you suggested? I think that’s what I did last time but I still can’t seem to get it to work this time.

[Mike Kujbida]

I’m not Don but I’ll try.
Open the Event Pan/Crop window and then do right click-match output aspect.

BTW, jeditdv (Edward Troxel) has a number of newsletters on his site that are highly recommended reading.

[Jsteinamite]

That was it! thank you!

Jonathan

[Jsteinamite]

Hi again. I did this and now it zooms into the picture and actually seems to distort it a bit. How can I make it fit the screen without the zooming effect or the distortion?

[Mike Kujbida]

“…it zooms into the picture and actually seems to distort it a bit.”

How large was the original image? I’ve done this thousands of times and never had any distortion issues.
It will zoom in very slightly due to the correction being done to the pixel aspect ratio conversion (square to rectangular) but, once again, it’s nothing I’ve ever worried about.

[Jsteinamite]

I think that I figured it out. For some reason, when I made the adjustment, it added a keyframe. When I removed it, it was fine…