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Eugenia wrote on 11/7/2007, 5:12 PM
Assuming your pictures are 4:3, you change your project properties on Vegas at a 4:3 resolution. For NTSC-standard that would be 720x486, with 0.9 aspect ratio. Doing it this way the black borders will only 3 pixels on each side, instead of hundreds of pixels. Alternatively, you can resize all your pictures are 655x480.

If this is a mixed pictures+DV widescreen video, then you can't do anything about it, your pictures are not widescreen. You could stretch them to the screen, but people's heads will then look like potatoes.

But you said that this is not a mixed project, so all you have to do is use a 4:3 resolution at your Project Settings.
Chienworks wrote on 11/7/2007, 6:24 PM
Open up Pan/Crop on each picture, right-mouse-button click in the cropping frame, and choose Match output aspect. This will enlarge the picture to fill the frame. You'll end up having some of the top and bottom cut off, but it won't distort the pictures at all.
ron23 wrote on 11/8/2007, 3:12 AM
If you are adding 4:3 stills to a wide screen project (or if some of them are in portrait mode in a SD project) then this tutorial from Douglas Spotted Eagle is useful for disguising the black bars-

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/standard_aspect_to_widescreen.htm

Ron