Vegas Pro 23 - AI Auto Reframe is zooming with pictures?

mb213 wrote on 9/22/2025, 1:39 PM

I’m using Vegas Pro 23 and trying to apply the Auto AI Reframe feature. The problem is that my project contains both regular video clips and still images. The still images already have a slight zoom effect in the timeline to create some movement.

When I run the AI Reframe, it zooms into those images extremely aggressively – probably around 300–400%. The zoom is so strong that, when I set my preview window to 9:16, I can’t even see the rectangle overlay that normally lets you choose the frame area, because it’s pushed in so far.

The project size itself remains unchanged, and I don’t see any scaling in track motion or anywhere else that would explain this.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

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Gid wrote on 9/22/2025, 2:54 PM

@mb213 I suspect you're not supposed to apply this fx to the whole project, esp one where the events/clips are inconsistent as yours are with the still images. It sounds like the AI fx is getting confused.

Try it without the still images & then later add those images back in.

You may have to add the fx to each individual clip if there's large differences between each of the clips, AI is getting good but I wouldn't expect it to read, track & reframe one event, then carry on down the timeline onto the next event & read, track & reframe that event, etc..

PS. With any kind of fx such as this there must be some kind of tracker written into the AI, as with any tracker once the object/s on screen that are being tracked go off screen the tracker can't track. Presumably the AI tracker is better than this, it tracks multiple things or even the whole screen & the AI anticipates such objects coming & going on/off screen, but when your still images come into play the AI's head just pops 🤯 & doesn't know what to do..

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PPS. 😉 Mocha Pro is a tracker, in that I can select certain parts of the clip that are problematic & tell it not to track those parts.maybe you can do the same in some way, or if the tracking looks correct on the rest of your project just delete the keyframes where the still images are.

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The still images already have a slight zoom effect in the timeline to create some movement.

If this is an added fx it won't be helping & will conflict with the AI Reframe, either disable this zoom effect or find a way around those still images.