Relationship between project properties and stills

Kit wrote on 9/13/2010, 5:39 AM
The NTSC DV template appears to have a stage (?) size of 720 X 480 pixels. But if I bring in a scanned graphic 1700 pixels wide by 1500 pixels high this doesn't fill the screen. I expected it would easily. What am I missing? What is the relationship between project properties and still sizes? I hope this question makes sense and isn't too vague.

Thanks,

Kit

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Former user wrote on 9/13/2010, 6:41 AM
1. Click on the Event Pan/Crop icon for the image (on the timeline)
2. Right click the image while in the Event Pan/Crop window.
3. Choose Match Output Aspect
4. That should fill the frame with your image.
5. Adjust the image position as needed.

Jim
Chienworks wrote on 9/13/2010, 9:39 AM
Since 1700x1500 isn't even close to the proportions of NTSC DV, even with pixel aspect ratio taken into account, i'm guessing you didn't try to approximate the shape. Presumably you are merely wondering why an image bigger than the project frame doesn't fill the frame. Is that a correct assumption?

If so, the answer is that Vegas reduces the image proportionally so that it fits completely inside the project frame while maintaining the height vs. width ratio of the original image. You were probably expecting that Vegas would overlap the project frame instead.

jdw's response is the correct way for dealing with this.

If your image had been 2045x1500 or 1700x1247 then it would have fit perfectly in a standard NTSC frame. For widescreen then 2728x1500 or 1700x1042 would fit. However, rather than dealing with all the calculations it's easier to let Vegas figure it out with the "match output" option.
Kit wrote on 9/14/2010, 7:39 PM
Thanks to you both. I wasn't expecting Vegas to automatically reduce the image. I guess there is no way to switch that off?

Kit
Chienworks wrote on 9/14/2010, 7:42 PM
Correct. I would be nice if there was an option to set "match output aspect" to be the default behavior.

There are scripts available that will change the setting for every selected event with a couple mouse clicks.