Cant move small image to edges

bherd wrote on 2/27/2015, 10:07 AM
Hi,

When I add an image to make it an overlay, and if the image is not the full width of the video format, I can only move the image around in the center in an area equal to the original image width.

In other words if the video format is 1920h and the image width is 640, I can only place the image within the central 640 pixels, if I move the image to the left or right of center or make the image bigger it becomes transparent if outside the 640. (like there is a mask of some sort)

How would I place a logo that is 200x200 anywhere on the screen including the left or right edges? I suppose I could make all of the images 1920 x 1080 but that sounds pretty counter-productive.

Regards,

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/27/2015, 10:30 AM
Use Track Motion instead of pan/crop.

Gary James wrote on 2/27/2015, 11:30 AM
Is this what you are trying to do? I added a small image to a 1920 project. Vegas automatically blows up the image to fit the project window in the closest axis; in this case the Y axis. To shrink the image on screen, you have to actually increase the size of the viewport. This is totally unintuitive but that's the way it is. You do this by first clicking on the Event Pan / Crop Icon. From the Pan / Crop dialog set the viewport resolution to your project resolution. Then adjust the size and position of the viewport to make an effective change to the appearance of the image.






Arthur.S wrote on 2/27/2015, 11:55 AM
+1 for track motion. Use pan/crop for size, but track motion to position.
Gary James wrote on 2/27/2015, 12:43 PM
Keep in mind that when you are using Track Motion, Vegas shrinks the source media down to the working size before it renders the final video. This could cause pixelation if the media size is changed while working with it using Track Motion.
Chienworks wrote on 2/27/2015, 12:47 PM
Better yet to use Pan/Crop, right-mouse-button click inside the cropping frame, and chose "match output aspect". You can then drag the cropping frame out larger to make the image smaller if necessary. This avoids both the cropping problem and the resampling problem.