Mixing 16:9 video and 4:3 still

rajgopal wrote on 5/21/2006, 7:35 AM

I have 16:9 format video and still iamges from regular digital camera (I am assuming 4:3). I would like to use still images in between the video clips without stretching the aspect ratio of still images. Any suggestions on how I can accomplish that (pan and crop may be)?

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Chienworks wrote on 5/21/2006, 9:16 AM

Pan/Crop, choose the 16:9 preset. This will crop the top and bottom from the picture. You can move the picture up and down as desired to get the part you want in the frame.

Once you've cropped the first one, Ctrl-C to copy, select all the other pictures, right-mouse-button click one of them and choose Paste Event Attributes. This will set the 16:9 cropping for all of them at once.

rajgopal wrote on 5/21/2006, 9:30 AM

Thanks for the recommendation. How can I apply random transition for the stills?

Chienworks wrote on 5/21/2006, 9:31 AM

Unfortunately you'll be stuck setting them all individually. Sorry about that.

rajgopal wrote on 5/21/2006, 9:38 AM

oouch!!! Is there a short cut to increase the transition time? Many of the transitions are just 6 or 7 frames?

ggrussell wrote on 5/22/2006, 6:17 AM

To make things more simple, you can always crop your still images before using them in VMS. I use a great little Donate-ware app called Image Cropper. It supports many different aspect ratios like 4:3, 16:9, 4x6, 5x7, etc. Very easy to use and has a batch mode.

Get IMage Cropper here

I also use this little app to crop digital camera files before sending them out to be printing at Walmart. That way I KNOW they are cropped the way I like. The author does take donations via PayPal. I use it so much I feel like I should give him more. ;)