[Wayne Waag]

It would appear that you have placed the cursor over the thumbnail on the timeline, not inside of the VideoEvent Fx window. This is how it should look.

Once you move the cursor inside the window, the cursor arrow will change.

Once you right-click this will appear.

Simply select Match Output Aspect.

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[Wayne Waag]

Your cursor needs to be somewhere inside the frame on the image itself. Then right-click.

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[Wayne Waag]

That won’t solve the problem, as I’ll just fill that up too. I don’t need this much video, it’s just as I couldn’t find an easy way to ‘cut and paste’ and then delete the source material I’d kind of given up trying.

Agreed. Suggest you re-read the previous posts on this thread and try one of the app’s recommended that will allow you to cut out the segments you don’t wont and then smart-render the rest. Just make sure that the resulting file is Vegas-friendly. All of the paid apps have a free trial.

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[Wayne Waag]

Especially as my 1tb drive is completely full so I’ve got to do something quickly with these videos so I can delete all the unusable content!

Don’t now your PC configuration, but why not get an external 1 or 2 tb usb 3.0 drive? They’re pretty cheap these days. Having two drives could possibly speed up your workflow.

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[Wayne Waag]

Peter,

If you want to fill the frame, there are only 2 options. First, you can crop the image to the same aspect ratio as your project, in which case, you will lose parts of that image. Second, you can distort the image so that all pixels are used, by stretching the image in the dimensions where the black bars appear. So basically, it’s your choice–a cropped image or a distorted image. When 16:9 TVs appeared, manufacturers came up with a variety of algorithms to stretch a normal 4:3 image source to 16:9, from simple linear stretching across the entire horizontal axis to more complex where the central part of the image was about right and that the stretch increased dramatically toward the ends. Vegas can easily do the simple linear stretching. Simply disable “maintain aspect ratio” in the pan/crop windows and zoom out in the horizontal axis only. Another option to consider would be to simply use the image “as is” and add some type of background track to eliminate the black bars. There are lots of ways to do this.

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[Wayne Waag]

Very easy. Open pan/crop window, place cursor somewhere over image, right-click and select Match Output Aspect. That’s it. Picture will fill frame and aspect ratio maintained.

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[Wayne Waag]

No need to Photoshop them. My assumption was that all images were the same size/aspect ratio. For the other ones, simply do the same thing. Select one, then match output ratio, copy and paste to those images that are the same size. Doing things like this are a lot easier if you have something like Vegasaur. If you did, then you could simply select your events, and apply one its 1-click Commands–Match Output Aspect and all would fill your frame regardless of their size or aspect ratio. For me at least, Vegasaur is the most used of any add-on that I have in my tool box. It’s a real time-saver.

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[Wayne Waag]

For your landscape images, select one and then open the pan/crop window. With cursor somewhere on the image, right-click and select Match Output Aspect. Then close the pan/crop window. Next, simply copy that event. Then select the remaining landscape images, right-click again, and select Paste Event Attributes. Each of the selected images should now fill the entire screen. It’s best to first fill your frame, before applying any motion effects such as panning or zooming with keyframes. You will have to do your portrait images separately. Easiest way again, if you want them all the same, is to pan/crop the first, copy, then select the remaining images, and again Paste Event Attributes. For a portrait image, the best way to initially pan/crop is to first apply the 16_9 preset, not default, and then zoom out until the frame covers whatever part of the image you desire. This way, you can move it anywhere in the frame you want. Hope this helps. Good luck.

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[Aleksey]

Thanks for pointing that out. It seems that I learn something new here almost every day. So, slipping would be akin to using Vegasaur and taking a specific offset under Events in its Quick Properties, which I do quite frequently. Just didn’t know I was technically “slipping”.

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[Wayne Waag]

You probably know this already, but another way to easily slip events without a script is to first, select the events to be slipped. Then enter the num-1 key to move one frame left or num-3 to move one frame right.

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