Is there a way to turn off this for pictures?

Unfortunately no :-(

How do I prevent Vegas from upscaling these photos? I do not want to use the Pan/Crop and the Track Motion to manually adjust the photos. this will create more work.

That's the only way I know of to do it.

Mike

Of course....This feature can simply be turned off by going to "Preferences"
and under the "Editing tab" , uncheck "Automatically crop still images added to timeline".

Maybe a little off topic, but sometimes you only have access to low resolution versions of the pictures you want to use in a Vegas project. Blowing them up in Vegas looks pixelated and Photoshop uprezzes aren't all that great either. The absolutely best program for uprezzing photos (IMHO of course) is http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=ourproducts&section=photozoompro_1PhotoZoom Pro[/link]. I just updated to version 3 recently and the newest high quality uprez algorithm is the best uprez I've ever seen. In really extreme cases, the uprezzing looks like an artistic hand drawing which is quite nice looking. There is absolutely no stair stepping on diagonal lines. I have been able to use low resolution photos I never would have thought of using even in HD projects.

...uncheck "Automatically crop still images added to timeline".

Steve, this must be new in V9 Pro as I can't see it in 6, 7 or 8 Pro.

Mike

I experimented a little today and after a couple of hours of editing and reading another post here it what I ended up doing:

1) I scaled down my photos to 240 X 162 square pixels.
2) Imported them into Vegas
3) Went into the Event Pan/Crop and changed the width (under the position) from 240 to 720. Thus this gives me 720 X 486 (which is my project canvas size).
4) Changed all of the picture properties to a pixel aspect ratio of .9091 (orignally brought in at PAR of 1.0).

This may not be the best way but it worked. Let me know if you know of a better way. I appreciate the responses. Keep the discussion going. Thanks!!!

-Brian

Mike.....I think this feature has been available from version 8.0c

Laurence....quite interesting, i shall take this on a trial spin and see.
often i have low resolution images that when uprezzed looks %#!@(*
no matter what is used.

Steve, I just checked an 8.0c machine and it's not there either so this must be one of V9's new features.

Mike

Mike....So it would seems then....could have sworn it was in Vegas 8.

No problem Steve. Thanks for the tip about it as I forgot it was in there.

Mike

Has anyone looked at my post? Did I do it correctly?

-Brian

> 3) Went into the Event Pan/Crop and changed the width (under the position) from 240 to 720. Thus this gives me 720 X 486 (which is my project canvas size).

Yes this is the correct way to correct for Vegas automatically scaling.

> 4) Changed all of the picture properties to a pixel aspect ratio of .9091 (orignally brought in at PAR of 1.0).

No, don't do this. The images use square pixels. Don't lie to Vegas and say that they are 0.9091 when they are not. Vegas will do the correct compensating but you have to tell it the truth. The PAR of the images is really 1.000. Leave it that way.

~jr

"No, don't do this. The images use square pixels. Don't lie to Vegas and say that they are 0.9091 when they are not. Vegas will do the correct compensating but you have to tell it the truth. The PAR of the images is really 1.000. Leave it that way."

I tried that but all nine pictures will not fill the canvas then. What am I doing wrong? Again, I have 9 photos that are 240 X 160...

Below is a link to a similair problem I am having:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=669459

There's always the "logo resize" tool in Excalibur which will reset it back to it's original size. If you have a bunch to do, that would be a lot quicker.

This feature came with V9 but it does not prevent stills from being upscaled, neither turned on, nor turned off.

It just gives you the choice to have a still being upscaled either until it fits the project size including cropping or until it fits the project size without cropping leaving black bars on bottom/top or left/right (like Vegas always did in the versions before).

It does not what L_Town asked for. I think the method he uses is the best (and only) way to go. Only faster way is to use Excalibur.

Marco