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Image re-sizing
I want to place a social media icon bar in my videos, and I’m having a heck of a time getting this done! I’d like them to be about 25×25 each in size, so I’m saving .png’s of the icon in GIMP, then dropping them into Vegas. The image fills the screen in preview, so I resize them. Accept there is a minimum size it will allow me to reduce it to.
There is also the problem where I can’t put the icon in the far left or right margin of the frame without the icon disappearing.
I feel like I’m doing something very wrong, and that this shouldn’t be this difficult. Any advice?!
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Put your icon in Photoshop and reduce the size there to something more manageable then you can reduce it once you get it on the timeline to the size you want easier.
Then take the image of your image on your timeline and click the pan/crop icon. Once the pan/crop opens, right click the image and a drop down will appear. Choose “match output aspect”
That will keep it from disappearing off the screen.Roger Bansemer
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[David Erickson] “I want to place a social media icon bar in my videos, and I’m having a heck of a time getting this done! I’d like them to be about 25×25 each in size, so I’m saving .png’s of the icon in GIMP, then dropping them into Vegas. The image fills the screen in preview, so I resize them. Accept there is a minimum size it will allow me to reduce it to.”
Yea the minimum reduction maxes out at 8x. So assuming you are using HD and your project height is 1080, then 1080 / 8 = 135. That’s as small as they will get. You’ll never get down to 25×25.
Do as Roger suggested and place your 25×25 icons in a 1920×1080 image in Photoshop. Save as a PNG with transparency and drop that into your project. That’s the only way you will get the icons that small.
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Roger and John sums up the solution perfectly for you.
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