[Tom Wooly]

The methods I now use are – for small images to prevent them from being scaled up I save them on a transparent psd the size of the project, this also allows you to position it in photoshop.
For cropping a project I change 1 of the dimensions in project setting and then in pan and crop – match output aspect (this stops the video becoming blured by scaling it), I then move the video into position to fill the black bar.
You have to only change 1 of the dimensions – save in a lossless format (Lagarith) then change the other dimension of the saved file and repeat the steps.

[Tom Wooly]

Another related problem – I’m trying to crop a video to remove a piece at the bottom – when I resize the project in project video properties the video is shrunk to fit the space – I want the video to stay the original size with the excess cropped off – if i resize the video with track motion the video is blurred

[Tom Wooly]

The Logo Resize tool in Excalibur works great, shame it’s only a 15 day trial

[Tom Wooly]

i tried clicking Match Source Aspect but nothing appears to happen