Resizing video and pictures on Vegas 10

golddigger wrote on 7/26/2012, 2:51 PM
The video from my Canon SX30IS Power Shot is in a wide format so that when I place it on the Vegas timeline there is a black space both above and below the picture. I would like to resize the video so that I no longer have the black areas. I know that I will lose information to the left and right but I accept that. On my old Cinestream I cold resize and move the image I want left or right, or up and down to keep that centered. Is there such a capability with Vegas 10 and if so how. Thank you.

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AlanADale wrote on 7/26/2012, 2:59 PM
By wide format you mean 16:9 yes?
In that case, if you are seeing black bands top and bottom in the preview window then that's as a result of not having set your project properties correctly. Top left of the preview window is a little box with a left and upward pointing arrow. Click on that and another window will open. In the 'template' field of the now open window click on the far right box 'match media settings'. Click on your 16:9 video and your project properties will now be automatically corrected and you'll notice the preview window change to wide format.
golddigger wrote on 7/26/2012, 3:17 PM
Boy Atlantis, Thank you for giving me instructions on how to change the preview window. However, what I really want to do is to change the size of the image to be a 4:3 so that it will match my pictures and the standard video that I am going to be using. The finished video will be in the 4:3 format so I actually want to expand the image size to eliminate the black band knowing that as I do that I will lose left and right. What I do now is take those short videos to another machine that has Cinestream and resize them on that and then bring them back. If I can resize on Vegas that will save me several steps. I want all of the information from various sources to be the same format. Thank you again.
rdandrea wrote on 7/26/2012, 3:51 PM
The Pan/Crop tool doesn't work for you?
Chienworks wrote on 7/26/2012, 4:47 PM
Open up Pan/Crop for the video event, and inside the cropping frame right-mouse-button click. A popup menu appears. Choose "Match output aspect" from that menu.

Done.
golddigger wrote on 7/26/2012, 7:12 PM
Thank you for the help. I think I now have the system where I can just assemble and then take each scene and come up with one overall format. Thanks.