Not sure if you’re asking me but I’ll do my best to help you.
In your original post you said “Now, I did look this issue up extensively before well and truly giving into making my own post about it, but everything I found said to “match output aspect.” I’ve tried this multiple times, and it zooms up super close on the image, which is not what I am trying to do. When I zoom back out, I have the same issue.”
The fact that it zooms in super close tells me that the image is a lot larger than your project settings.
I have a similar issue with my company logos as they’re in the range or 4,000 x 4,00 pixels and most of my projects are 1920×1080.
As others have said, Track Motion can be used and I have used it a few times but I’m an old dog and I prefer to use Pan/Crop 🙂
Be advised that any event (still or video) that you use Track Motion on is instantly changed to your project properties. What that means is that your 3,000 x 4,000 pixel event is now (for example) 1920×1080. Great for zooming out but not for zooming in as you’ve lost that extra resolution that Pan/Crop maintains.
I use Pan/Crop to do “Match Output Aspect” and then zoom out as much as I need to to get my event to the proper size. After that I reposition it as needed.
On rare occasions (if the image is far too large) I’ve brought it into Photoshop and resized it smaller.
Not sure if this answers your question but that’s what I do.