So in the preview screen the video looks great! everything is how it should be, no side bars or anything, but when it goes to render the whole video shrinks to this picture, anyone know how to fix this?
Likely a smaller preview because your video card / CPU cannot display the full window size image while processing. Final project should be at full resolution.
how do I set this at full resolution? is it in the settings somewhere? because after the video is done rendering I went to my finished product and the whole thing was zoomed in like the preview.
Do you have Movie Studio or Vegas Pro?
Start here for meaningful assistance:
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/important-information-required-to-help-you--110457/
it is movie studio
Then don't put your media on the PIP track, put it on a video track.
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