Thanks for the prompt reply. I did this (actually had already done it), but it still does not fill up the frame. I will go check out the tutorials, and hopefully I'll find out more.

Thanks again for your help. This is a great forum for us rookies.

It's also a great forum for those of us who aren't rookies. :-) Welcome to Vegas.

I did what the tutorial said, but even after I matched output aspect, the photos still has thick black borders if I start at the original jpeg size. The only way I can get the still to take up the entire (or almost entire) preview screen is if I "zoom" in on it. Not sure if that makes sense, but thanks again for trying to decipher..

Marc

If your scan has black edges, then so will the pan/crop. In other words, if there is any information outside the image that is part of the actual image file, Vegas can't discern that. Of course you'll need to zoom, that's the only way you'll get non 4:3 images into a 4:3 frame. But that's usually OK.

http://www.vasst.com/resource.aspx?id=bc5773d9-a888-4f5a-a73d-cb8794b1f10b

has the tutorial, with streaming media to accompany it.

Check out my panning/cropping tuturials accessible under my name from this fourm.

The issue is simple. If your source image doesn't match your project's propery size and ratio, them something has to give. If you want to get rid of the black borders, if you can begin by resizing the image in an application better suited to the task like Photoshop or one of its many clones.

Sometimes your source image with simply be wrong on either the height or width and there is no way to fit it into your project without cropping or zooming in. My tutorials give several examples. You can also use track motion to size the frame, so its possible to have more than one video which could be a slide show within the same project, each taking up a space you decide. See my Track Motion tutorial for an example of how that works.