inserting a picture

Joni wrote on 4/6/2003, 4:00 PM
when I inset a picture (i.e, taken with my coolpix) I get black lines in both sides of by screen. Its like the picture it is not big enough to fill the whole screen.
Maybe it wont apear when I see it on a TV set.
But the problem is that when I want to use an effect or a TRANSISION the black colunms are still in the picture.
I have tried to CROP it but the black comlums are still there.
What can I do?

best

djoni

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dcrandall wrote on 4/6/2003, 6:38 PM
1) Select the Pan/Crop tool in the Event
2) Click on the first keyframe position (to make sure you don't add an extra keyframe that you don't want)
3) Right click on the frame window and select "Match Output Aspect"

Your picture will now fill the whole frame
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Joni wrote on 4/7/2003, 12:26 AM
dcrandall,

it works, thanks a lot.

djoni
jerryd wrote on 4/7/2003, 5:57 AM
Question: did that not cause you to lose part of your picture at the top and bottom?
Chienworks wrote on 4/7/2003, 6:55 AM
jerryd, it's a trade-off you have to make. When the image isn't the same shape as the video frame, you can either place the entire image in the frame with black bars, enlarge the image so that the frame fits inside it and lose some of the image, or stretch the image to the frame shape which distorts it. You have to choose one of these methods, or even a combination of them if you wish, but ... if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit.
FuTz wrote on 4/7/2003, 10:23 AM
Exact!
One more: if you choose to uncheck the "Maintain aspect ratio" in the pan/crop window (while keeping the "stretch to fill frame" box checked) it can also do some kind of a job but will seriously distort your picture if it's been cropped (before). The further away you are from the ratio in your video VS the ratio of the picture you want to insert, the more distortion.

Bottom line: if you want the same framing without cropping, you gotta have a picture, to start from, that has the same framing ratio that you are going to have in your final produced video.
I use Photoshop a lot to correct this trade-off (or to change definition, etc...), but you take the same decisions in Photoshop too... We're caught with a final frame that's gonna be 4x3 or 16x9 anyway! Unless you customize *this* too... :)
Joni wrote on 4/7/2003, 10:27 AM
where is "stretch to fill frame" box???
FuTz wrote on 4/7/2003, 10:35 AM
In the Event Pan/Crop window, on the left.