Black bars around stills

knockatoone wrote on 3/7/2011, 12:48 PM
I have veirticle black bars on each side of a still when it is placed on the time line. I have zoomed in using the Pan/ crop tool to get rid of these bars but no luck. I am trying to start in close and zoom out and even when zoomed in on jus 20% of the photo I still get the bars in the Vieo Preview window. 4 other stills from same shoot and camera are not having this problem ?? The project is HD with resulting poixel aspect ratio of 1,333. In the Event Pan/Crop window the dashed line that sets the picture zoom limits is well with in the picture on all sides...???
Any thoguhts ?? K

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Tim L wrote on 3/7/2011, 1:27 PM
The dashed line is probably still in the shape of the original photo, so when you zoom in to crop the photo it is still "photo shaped" and not video shaped (are you doing a 16:9 widescreen project? or 4:3?)

Anyway, even though you have zoomed in on the photo, you are then dropping a "photo-shaped" image onto the timeline, which will center it in the video-shaped output window.

In the pan-crop window for this photo, right click and select "Match Output Aspect". This tells Vegas you want your cropping window to be the same shape as your video project.

richard-amirault wrote on 3/7/2011, 3:02 PM
In the pan-crop window for this photo, right click and select "Match Output Aspect".

I've never done is that way, but I just tried it and it works. However in Vegas, as in many computer programs, there is often more than one way to accomplish your objective.

In that same Pan/Crop window .. go to the top drop down menu ... it defaults to "(Untitled)" .. and select whatever matches your project. 16x9, 4x3 or whatever.
knockatoone wrote on 3/7/2011, 3:36 PM
You have both ID'd the problem - thanks a lot

but it appears that my key framing is causing the bars to come and go as it zooms I tried re- setting the aspect ratio each time the bars reapeared but it is getting pretty choppy -- best I assume to dump it all -do the match out put aspect ratio on a clean photo and then do the keyframing/ zooming .. Do you have to do the "Match" for each event? - that is not the same ratio as the project property is set to ?? Even stanger that 3 of 4 stills were OK ??
Thanks again for your help
knockatoone wrote on 3/8/2011, 7:12 AM
Deleted the photo, loaded it again, went into the Pan crop window and set the 9:16 ratio there and then did the key framing and all is clean and great.
BUT
Further question ? if I right click on the "event{" on the time line and go into the "switches" , I can check the box "Maintain Aspect ratio" - it appears that this setting does not apply as soon as I go into Pan/Crop ? Or ?? Just trying to under stand how things work

Thanks, Again K