Need help with cropping & settings

bimm wrote on 6/11/2006, 12:19 PM
I am a first time user of Vegas video. I've captured all of my video and still photos I want to put into my first project and gone over the tutorials. I don't know what I did, but I'm having problems (at this point!) with the event cropping/pan program. I went in to crop a photo and it appears the zoom mechanism is permanently engaged -- I can't get any of the other icons to work, I can only zoom in and out. Could I have accidently changed a default setting? Does anyone know how to turn the zoom off? Are there any easy tricks to zoom in and crop? Also, as a new user, do you think it is worth while to pay to take a class on this or does it get easier (more intuitive) as you use it? Thanks in advance for any assistance! Michelle

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Chienworks wrote on 6/11/2006, 12:56 PM
Hmmm. I'm not sure if i'm entirely following you. Let me ask a few questions to see if i'm on the right track ...

When you crop, as in move the dashed line in to show only a smaller portion of the picture, does the portion you are showing get bigger to still fill the preview window? If so, is this what you mean by zooming? If so, this is what is supposed to happen. If you'd like the small section of the picture to remain small in the frame then it's a bit more complicated. You have to set Maintain aspect ratio to No, Stretch to fill frame to Yes, and manually enter 720x480 as the width and height.

Or ... do you have a little magnifying glass pointer that makes the image in the pan/crop window larger every time you click on it? Does right-mouse-button clicking make the image smaller? If so, you have the zoom tool selected. This tool only zooms the pan/crop workspace and has nothing to do with zooming the image in the video. Click the normal edit tool button, second from the top on the left edge of the pan/crop window to turn off the zoom tool.

As far as the other buttons not working ... none of them actually do anything when you click on them. All they do is control what happens when you drag the mouse in the pan/crop window. Actually clicking the buttons themselves makes no visible change in the pan/crop window.

If i haven't covered the problem you're having we'll probably need more details about what's going wrong and what you're doing.
rs170a wrote on 6/11/2006, 5:29 PM
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Mike