Disable rescaling, importing a photo image

[tissueissue]

I have just bought Ultimate X6 and encountered serious problem already.

The question is, "Is it possible to completely disable re-scaling image on the import?"

It seems like it has only 2 options, "Fit to project" and "Keep aspect ratio".
What I want is something "Keep source resolution" because when I put an image of a map, which is 2 or 3 times larger than the project resolution, the image become completely useless due to the re-scaling.

Now, again, is there way to ditch this re-scaling?

Thanks in advance.

[Ken Berry]

If you put the image in an overlay track, you can use stretch to fit and manually adjust, which I suspect should meet your needs.

[BrianCee]

If you put your image in the overlay track and then click on it to select it so that it has yellow lines all round it - the RIGHT click on the image in the preview window you will see the option "Original size" - this will display the image at it's full resolution - but remember that of course now you will only see part of your image - you can move the image in the preview screen with your mouse cursor to show the part you want - or use the pan filter to automatically move across your image.

"serious" ? problem solved


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[tissueissue]

Hi, Ken Berry and BrianCee

First of all, thankyou for the advice.
Actually, the method you two have pointed out, was exactly what I wanted to do. But it seems like the software is re-scaling the image when I put the image into the timeline no matter what.

Good example is this image (careful, it's 20mb image, 9254x6681)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/onc/txu- ... 29_a_1.jpg

When I put the image above into the timeline and then select "original size", the image of the photo in the preview screen, supposed to be crystal clear, but when I actually do that, it gets so awfully blurred that I cant even read the text.

[Ken Berry]

When I put the image above into the timeline and then select "original size", the image of the photo in the preview screen, supposed to be crystal clear, but when I actually do that, it gets so awfully blurred that I cant even read the text.

I'm not sure I understand. Why would you want to have the "Original Size" of such a huge photo in a screen which has much less resolution? Of course the original size is going to show up essentially as dots and lines as you are seeing only a minute part of the map. Surely you are only after an image of the full map at lower -- but still quite readable -- resolution which fills the screen or whatever part of the screen you want it on. I have tested that map and simply by doing as both Brian and I suggested, gives you a quite readable map over the whole screen.

[tissueissue]

I'm not sure I understand. Why would you want to have the "Original Size" of such a huge photo in a screen which has much less resolution? Of course the original size is going to show up essentially as dots and lines as you are seeing only a minute part of the map. Surely you are only after an image of the full map at lower -- but still quite readable -- resolution which fills the screen or whatever part of the screen you want it on. I have tested that map and simply by doing as both Brian and I suggested, gives you a quite readable map over the whole screen.

Hi, Ken Berry.

Because I need decent quality of image to use roto pen, I even want to move the clip in the movie.

Do you get readable text? Now, I'm wondering if it's just me experiencing this quality issue...
I took screenshots of the preview screen, please take a look at it.

When I put the image into the overlay timeline : http://imageshack.us/a/img209/4103/38726249.jpg
When I click original size, it goes.. : http://imageshack.us/a/img580/4171/51263036.jpg

But I'm expecting quality something like this : http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3598/91086712.jpg

[tissueissue]

Should I give up on this one...?

[BrianCee]

I just don't think it is going to work with one huge image - as you see the screen cannot display it properly.

I think you can still do what you want but you are going to have to do a little bit more work - crop the main image into smaller images and use them in turn and maybe apply motion to each image so that the image moves in the screen while your roto pen target moves across the individual images.

click on the image to enlarge it.

[lata]

Should I give up on this one...?

Certainly not………..

Hi

The problem with zooming in to an image has been covered before, especially using maps. Maybe a search of the forum will find some details
The best we could come up with is how Brian describes it by using a small high quality image of the target area.
Zoom in to the main image then fade-in to a second high quality image, target area.

Not sure if we used Picture in Picture or a simple Pan & Zoom.

In addition there was an issue in using F6 Preferences – Image—Apply Anti Flickering
With this selected caused some reduction in quality especially the text quality.
May help a little by deselecting.

Aspect Ratio………..
Your Image although large would be better using an aspect ratio of 16:9, that would then fit to screen without borders.
The Pan and Zoom will use 16:9 aspect ratio.

I have uploaded a Smart Package of what I achieved, needs a bit more tweaking to set the correct fades etc.
The first image is a template identifying the zoom target area, Pan & Zoom--- Copy and Paste Attributes to main image.
The image in the overlay track is a high quality of the target area, using Advanced Motion to set the transition

http://www.upfordown.com/public/pdownlo ... 0image.zip