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Panning still image while maintaining ratio
Bare with me as I am still new to working with Sony Vegas Pro. I am working on a project which has a lot of still images. Everything is set to 1280×720. Originally, I had not set the images’ height and width to 1280×720. I had cropped them and used keyframes to create a panning motion. However, when it rendered out, the video would either show horizontal or vertical bars (letterboxing?). By changing all the images to 1280×720, and then rendering the video once again, the image fills the entire screen.. which is what I wanted.
The problem is… when I go back to these 1280×720 images, I am unable to use keyframing to create a panning effect. If I were to crop an image just to give me room so I can keyframe, it renders out with the bars either on the sides or top and bottom again. If I don’t crop the image at all and set a keyframe to move to the left, there will be a black bar to the right.
SO, how do I pan an image while maintaining a 1280×720 ratio?
Thank you in advance! 🙂
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[Edwardson Guevarra] “SO, how do I pan an image while maintaining a 1280×720 ratio?”
Make sure that your images are larger than 1280×720 because you will need to zoom in a bit to make room to pan. 1.5 – 2x the resolution should be fine. In the Pan/Crop tool, right-click the frame window and select Match Output Aspect. This will give you a cropping rectangle that will match the output aspect of your project. Now you can zoom in a bit and pan around. As long as you keep that rectangle full of the image contents, you shouldn’t see any black bars.
~jr
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Thanks for the info John. Any suggestions for the actual image size?
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[Edwardson Guevarra] “Any suggestions for the actual image size?”
I would make them 2560 x 1440 for a 1280 x 720 project if you plan to zoom in and pan.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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