Cropping a portrait photo

[bikemike66]

I am trying to put several photos on the timeline using overlay tracks. Any taken in portrait layout have large black bars on either side which cover up the other photos on the timeline. I have tried the Crop Borders and cropping effects, but they either don't work as I thought they should or I am doing something wrong.

It seems to me that this should be a simple fix, and that I must be missing something obvious.

Any thoughts?

[BrianCee]

The problem with portrait photos is that they are in portrait aspect which is a vertical format and not in a landscape format which is the standard video format. I do not understand your comment about the black bars covering other photos in the timeline - each photo is a separate entity and unless it is in another overlay track will not cover other photos when they should be visible. If you want to see all of the photo you have no option other than to have bars on each side - they do not have to be black though - they can be any colour or even patterned. The only way not to have side bars is to zoom in on the photo until it fits side to side - then sliding the photo up and down to get the important bits of the photo on-screen - but if you want full side to side you MUST lose some of the photo either from the top, the bottom, or a bit of both.

The simple fix is not to take portrait photos if you want to see all of them in a video.

[Colin_]

As I see it, Photos are imported into Corel videostudio at the project resolution set in Settings->Project properties. So if you have a 1080p project your portrait photo is imported with the long side 1080 pixels leaving 2 black bars either side.

To get rid of the black bars double click on the photo and use 'Pan and Zoom' in the Photo options window. Crop the picture by adjusting the bounding box and remember to copy the settings to the right hand keyframe.

At this point you will notice - as I've just noticed soon after buying - that the quality of the picture is now rubbish. Instead of using the original photo for the pan and zoom the 1080p import is used reducing the quality dramatically .

If you have Boris graffiti you can get a Pan and Zoom which does give you best quality but, because of a bug in Videostudio with photos added to boris graffiti, it only works for a HD picture size if videostudio's project properties, boris graffiti's project settings and the Create video file picture size settings are the same. Even then If the picture size is HD the pictures will not show the correct size in the small Videostudio preview window (though they do with the preview window full screen)

Personally I think this is very poor. If you don't have boris graffiti the only way to keep the quality of still images is to crop them before import and forget about panning an zooming.

[lata]

Hi

We need to know if your images contain a black border or if its being created in Video Studio.

Go to Settings - Preferences (F6) -change the background colour to any colour you like providing it is not black.
Viewing the preview screen you will see the frames shape in colour

Now add an image to the overlay track, the image should show reduced in size.
Does this image have black borders?

Now can you tell us how you wish to see the image, as a Picture in Picture, or to fit to full screen.

[Dnv]

Personally I think this is very poor. If you don't have boris graffiti the only way to keep the quality of still images is to crop them before import and forget about panning an zooming.

It is 2013 year. And yes, they still has not fixed this bug with photo. I
Thank you for advice, i'll try to use Borris.
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