Slideshow photo sizes differ

[Hector Vera]

Perhaps if I can see a video clip of how it is happening, I can offer you better assistence on how to fix this issue. Are you trying to make a vertical style video like the YouTube shorts and such? You may want to check the scaling limits and see if you and scale out the image to see the whole thing. Hope to hear back from you soon.

[Maggie Abel]

I’m chosen to make a slideshow for a retirement party, of hundreds of pix sent to me from many sources including Facebook pix, all different sizes and shapes. Oftentimes the heads or hairlines of the people in the pix are cut off when I play back the timeline I have placed them on. Also some of them are zoomed in way too close by the Vegas software. I must have put a wrong setting. I don’t know what settings to use. I just upgraded to Vegas Pro 22 and discovered the SLIDESHOW setting. I don’t mind having black bars on the top or bottom or wherever needed. I don’t know how to explain that to Vegas. I have a deadline to present this in a day or two. It will projected onto a wall or a screen.

[John Cuevas]

You can figure out the best size, then create an action in Photoshop to change the photos to that size and then batch run the action on the folder with the photos.

Say you want them all to be 1280 x 720. You would open the actions window and start recording an action. Change the “Image Size” to 720—this will either scale up or scale down the photo. Then change the canvas size to 1280. Larger picture might get cropped on the sides, but you won’t have to worry about cutting off heads.

[Maggie Abel]

Thanks to all for the advices. I recorded those. And discovered in the meantime that within Vegas, once the photos are on the timeline, I can select the blue FX button on the timeline image and adjust the giant F; outline over the face of the photo to focus in on the area that’s important, such as their heads! Appreciated alla yall’s help.

[Maggie Abel]

Given that each of my photos in the Vegas Pro 22 slideshow is a different shape, I learned to hit the blue Fx button, then move the giant F overlay around til my pic is perfect! Yay. But then I hit “save preset” button assuming that makes my changes permanent for THAT ONE PHOTO. But I return later and find my carefully placed photo is slightly off and have to redo. I have not named each photo preset, or I would have 300 different preset names. Also sometimes the photo won’t move to the right or left and I’m forced to have an uneven black bar on one side so that the photo includes someone on the edge. Advice requested quickly as I’m wasting time repositioning photos I already worked a while on.

[Maggie Abel]

Okay so I learned NOT to hit the save this preset button so my one-time changes for a certain unique photo remain unaltered. So yay. Now how to move my occasional photo that needs to go left and right. Up and down is working fine.