Overlay track resize

[BrianCee]

No - 16:9 would be the best format for your images - but you must not expect to fully fill the screen with them - you MUST have a border down each side if you are not going to distort the images - the border can be any colour or any pattern - if you use the 'keep aspect ratio' you should be able to set the image to touch top and bottom of the screen and leave a small border each side.

Alternatively you must crop your images (in another software programme) to a 16:9 ratio but you would have to do each image individually - so that would be a lot of work.

[budbon]

The borders will be okay. I'll play around with them a bit. Thanks so much for your help.

[budbon]

I'm back. My photos are 3168 X 4752 pixels. I think that amounts to a 3:2 aspect ratio. I put a photo on the timeline and the same photo on the overlay line. I then right clicked in the preview window and clicked on "Fit to Screen". The photo was distorted so I again right clicked on the preview screen and clicked on "Keep Aspect Ratio. The photo was not distorted but much larger than the timeline photo. I was hoping to in some simple way have the overlay window the same size as the timeline.
My goal: I am putting together a slideshow with a number of photos. Each photo will have pan and zoom (not all the same ratio) elements. On a couple of photos I want to pixilate some logos on friends shirts. This is a learning process and I know I could blur the logos in Paint Shop Pro but as I said I am trying to mimick what they do on TV with faces and such.
It is amazing how I can get bogged down learning one little element.

[Black Lab]

I was hoping to in some simple way have the overlay window the same size as the timeline.

Have your overlay photo directly underneath the photo in the main timeline. Click on the overlay photo to select it. In the Preview Window, pull the yellow trim handles to stretch the overlay photo to match the size of the photo in the main track. When complete, right click on the photo in the overlay track and choose Copy Attributes. Then paste those attributes to the rest of the photos in the overlay track.

[budbon]

I discovered something interesting. If I do an auto pan & zoom on the main track, copy that onto the overlay track, go to the preview window, right click and click on Fit to Screen, it comes out as an exact duplicate to the main timeline. Go figure

[Trevor Andrew]

I was hoping to in some simple way have the overlay window the same size as the timeline.

Have you tried using the Copy and Paste Attributes option mentioned in my first post at 2011 4:49 pm

[Trevor Andrew]

I discovered something interesting. If I do an auto pan & zoom on the main track, copy that onto the overlay track, go to the preview window, right click and click on Fit to Screen, it comes out as an exact duplicate to the main timeline. Go figure

When you right click and select Copy you are copying the full frame, the image + borders and all, the image will be 16:9, it will fit to screen

Go to Settings Preferences and change the background colour from black, any colour will do, this will show the actual video frame.