Are you saying you want Vegas to maintain a frame of a certain size, say 720 x 480 and if a still image is smaller, say 360 x 240, you want the still image to float inside the frame (hopefully in the center) with a black frame around it rather than have Vegas fit the image to the full frame ? You can get this effect with pan/crop but you want to be able to find a setting in Vegas, something like "don't resize stills to fit the frame" ?
Not sure there is such a setting -- but maybe there could be a script to do this?
I looked in the Internal options but detect which setting might help.

No automatic way to do this that i've found. However, If you set the pan/crop height and width values to the size of the project frame in square pixels (for example, 654.54 x 480 for NTSC DV) and leave maintain aspect ratio and stretch to fill frame both at Yes, you will accomplish this.

Ok, got it - thanks guys, but how do I do this then:

If I have say 50 stills I want to make a slideshow of with some pan / crop / zoom effects with my Ultimate S3, the pictures always start out to fit the whole screen (720 x 576 f.ex.) and then starts to move arround from there.
Maybe I wanted the pictures to start in the middle with some space arround them so that I could see a frame f.ex. that I had put arround them. I can in the preview window, but after output on a TV it will be cut off.
If now Vegas would have been able to import without adjusting size, I could f.ex. have made my pics say 680 x 544 and they would have been in the middle with the space from 680 -> 720 as black so that the whole picture would show all the time, besides when zooming in of course.

I know I can make all this happen with the pan / crop tool directly in Vegas, but if there was a smarter way now that I have Ultimate S, it would be good.


Thanks.

/Ulf