Question regarding Stills on the timeline

Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/22/2007, 1:30 PM
I'm in a rush trying to integrate some stills as icons for a client project and I'm banging my head on what should be a simple issue.

The icons are small (60x60 pixels) When I add one to the timeline, it magnifies to the height of the project - I want to keep the image it's original size without it zooming to the video window's height - I can't figure out how to keep the image from zooming in - any ideas what I'm missing here???

TIA,

Cliff Etzel
bluprojekt

Comments

Bill Ravens wrote on 8/22/2007, 1:33 PM
Have you tried framing the correctly sized image in a 640x480 background?
Logan5 wrote on 8/22/2007, 1:55 PM
Check to see if the “maintain aspect ratio is on”
Jessariah67 wrote on 8/22/2007, 2:01 PM
Open the image's pan/crop window. Right click on the pan/crop field and choose "Match Output Aspect." Then pull a corner of the frame out (making it bigger) until the image is the size you want. Then click anywhere within the frame and drag to "place" the image where you want it.

Once you get the sizing the way you want with the first, drag all the others onto the timeline, right click the original "fixed" image and choose "Copy." Select all of the other images, right click on any of them and choose "Paste Event Attributes."

HTH
Cliff Etzel wrote on 8/22/2007, 2:41 PM
THANKS!!! :-D
rmack350 wrote on 8/22/2007, 3:54 PM
You can't stop it. You have to correct it afterwards.

One simpler way to deal with it is to make 654x480 compositions in Photoshop, put the element where you want, and then import that or a PNG of it into Vegas. This gives you a full frame image with most of it being transparent. No muss or fuss.

This was what Bill was getting at.

Rob Mack
jetdv wrote on 8/23/2007, 7:51 AM
They CAN all be rest to original size via a script. That's what the "Logo Resize" tool does in Excalibur - resets images back to their original sizes instead of the default Vegas gives.
rmack350 wrote on 8/23/2007, 11:28 AM
Yes, you can do it with scripts. Just not with the stock Vegas. Didn't mean to ignore scripts-good ones are the best thing since sliced bread!

It depends on the circumstances, of course, but what I'll often do is export a still from Vegas, open it in photoshop, place the graphic on another layer where I want it, turn off the still image layer, save as PSD, and drop it back into Vegas. Everything fits just fine this way and the element is placed where I expected it.

You could also just save the results over the exported PNG and then you've saved a step getting it back into Vegas.

The thing about Vegas is that it resamples everything to make it fit into the project. It doesn't matter if it's a 32k audio sample being resampled to 48k, or a 20px x 20px PNG being resampled to fit the frame. Vegas always resamples.

Rob Mack