Possible? Is it possible to add a border around a jpg?

[Aleksey Tarasov]

Pan/Crop + Border FX (before Pan/Crop)
That’s it

Vegasaur – automation plugins and tools for Sony Vegas Pro

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Aleksey but this doesn’t work at my end.
Have you tried it? Remember, the jpg is smaller than screen reso.
Tried what you recommended and it simply puts a border on the entire video.

I came close by using cropping with the track motion but since my photo is not the screen reso (narrower) the border extends on either side, farther than the photo.

G

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, make sure you do as Aleksey said and put the Border FX before Pan/Crop.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Ahhhhh!
I see what you mean by BEFORE!!!
I was simply applying it before (chronologically) thinking it was perahps a Vegas Quirk!

Works like a charm!
Thanks to you both!
Gilles

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Sounds to me like it’s time to step outside for a breath of fresh air, especially now that the temperature has come down to a reasonable level 🙂

[Gilles Gagnon]

Ha ha! Yes indeed, however, have a deadline on a project. Will talk to you about it when I see you,

Gilles

Gilles

[Roger Bansemer]

Another way is to use Track Motion and the “blur” feature.
Just reduce the blur to 0% to make a hard edge and then enlarge the drop shadow to surround the picture. That will make a border.
Also that way you can use that track for multiple jpg pictures and they’ll all have the same border each time you place a jpg on the timeline.

Roger Bansemer

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Roger,

Can you give a little more detail, which “blur” function are you referring to. What you are talking about sounds much easier than what I’ve been doing to get the look of a “Polaroid picture” moving on the screen, using a white solid media “box” sized to create about a 1/4″ border around a picture, which is on a separate track. I tie the two together with a Parent/Child relationship (white “border” is the parent, picture is the child). All this is done with 3D track motion. It sounds like from your description, I could do the picture and border all on one track.

Andrew Lenczycki

[Roger Bansemer]

1. Put your jpgs on the timeline.

2. Click on “Track Motion” on the track media bar. It’s the square white icon with the arrow and blue smaller square.
3. Resize a jpg image that you have on the timeline by dragging one corner.

4. put a check on the “2D shadow” box
Note: you won’t see anything if you have no other tracks underneath it because the shadow would be black along with the track, so be sure you have a different background on another track so the shadow will show up.
5. After you click the 2D shadow box, you’ll see another box which will be the shadow.
6. Enlarge that box so it surrounds the image even though it’s fuzzy now.
7. Reduce the “Blur%” to 0. This will make a hard outline.
8. Then you’ll have to adjust the size and most likely center that outline.
9. From there on out, every image you put on that timeline will have the border around it.

Let me know if you need more explanation.
Roger

Roger Bansemer

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Roger,

Thanks, that explanation was perfect! I enjoy reading this forum, as you never know what you’ll learn. I knew the 2D shadow was available, but I didn’t realize you could resize and move the “shadow” layer.

Andrew Lenczycki