The fastest/easiest way is to select 16x9 in the Event Pan Crop Window. That will cut off some of the top and the bottom. If the video has enough border it may work. Otherwise, you have to look at what you have and how much you're willing to give up, or whether you would rather have black borders on top and bottom or sides. What is your video pixel dimensions and what will be your output?

I would like to fill the screen. I am shooting the stills to do a time lapse over 1 hour to add to a video shot at 720P or 1080I. I am using my Nikon D200 that cannot be set to 16:9. I guess I will shoot wide to allow for the crop. Thanks for the tips.

Steve

This short timelapse was shot on a Canon G2 and G5, which are both 4x3 at different resolutions. I cropped in Vegas to 16x9. On a roof, I could only get so wide.

Thanks John. How did you time your shots and how many images did you end up with to create the time lapse? What is the event length for image image in Vegas?

Steve

I used an application called GBTimelapse running on two laptops to trigger Canon cameras and save the data until I went periodically and saved it to a portable hard drive. I used the older, discontinued version though there is a new version for the high end Canon cameras. For the video in the link, I was triggering about every 12 seconds. The "action" took about five hours so this shot produced around 1500 images. I imported the images as an image sequence in Vegas with project settings 1920x1080-24p. Even the G2 had more pixels than the project settings. Each image was equal to one frame. For this link, most of the time was cut, then the rest was time compressed as needed.
Some of the other video on my channel was recorded over a period of months so I collected a little less than 400 GB of stills. After rendering the first pass of MXF HD422 1920x1080-24p 50 Mbps, I deleted the stills. Now, that I understand resample better, I might try a different approach if I still had the stills.