How to change template landscape pics to portrait

[xinnjstar]

I have download the offical template 075 -080 HD-project template and like it so much.
But I am having problem changing some of the picture to portrait so as to fit my pictures.
I have try two ways of changing it

1. Directly replacing the picture with my portrait picture but black strips on are both sides.

2. Adding new portrait pictures to the project and copying the attribute (less the size ) over to my picture but the attributes does not fix properly
to the pictures. The picture change to a tiny small picture.



Why when I add picture to the timeline on the track it always go to the end of the timeline and I have to move them back to the specific timeline.
Can you enlightening me on this how to to quickly change the pictures from landscape to portrait and how to add pics to timeline without pics moving
to the end of the line.

[BrianCee]

When you are using instant projects and need to replace the numbered placehoders with your images the secret is to drag your image down from the library pane and as you approach the placeholder you wish to replace hold down the 'ctrl' key on your keyboard - move your image over the placeholder then release the mouse key and the ctrl key and your image should exactly replace the placeholder.

The next bit is not so easy though - changing from a landscape to a portrait image.

The instant projects have many inbuilt filters and motion paths and as far as I can see that template makes use of the 'picture-in-picture' filter - you will almost certainly also have to apply the cropping filter as well and customise that - so you will need to be very capable at using those options to make changes - are you competent with the filters etc. in videostudio ?

you may find it easier to crop your portraits to landscape in a programme outside of VideoStudio before using that project template.

[xinnjstar]

When you are using instant projects and need to replace the numbered placehoders with your images the secret is to drag your image down from the library pane and as you approach the placeholder you wish to replace hold down the 'ctrl' key on your keyboard - move your image over the placeholder then release the mouse key and the ctrl key and your image should exactly replace the placeholder.

The next bit is not so easy though - changing from a landscape to a portrait image.

The instant projects have many inbuilt filters and motion paths and as far as I can see that template makes use of the 'picture-in-picture' filter - you will almost certainly also have to apply the cropping filter as well and customise that - so you will need to be very capable at using those options to make changes - are you competent with the filters etc. in videostudio ?

you may find it easier to crop your portraits to landscape in a programme outside of VideoStudio before using that project template.

Thanks for the reply, I would like to change this template from landscape to portrait. I do not like to change my pictures to landscape.
As I have said I add a picture in front and copy the placeholders picture attributes and copying them into my picture(less the size) but the picture become as what I posted and does not have the motion effect as the placeholders .
I should have my picture inherited the placeholders filters , motion etc less the size. What I couldn't understand it doesn't.
Does I misunderstand attributes ? Overlay, Color coloration, resampling, filters,rotation, size & distortion, Direction/style /motion.

[xinnjstar]

Another thing is why I inserted picture into the timeline where there is empty space, the picture move to the end of the track.
It should be inserted into the timeline position as where is inserted in and not move to the end of the track.
Is it a bug in the software.

[BrianCee]

which track are you inserting the images to - and how are you doing it

With ready made projects like the one you are using it is very difficult to insert images any where other than in the placeholders provided and I have explained how to do that.

[Ken Berry]

Another thing is why I inserted picture into the timeline where there is empty space, the picture move to the end of the track.
It should be inserted into the timeline position as where is inserted in and not move to the end of the track.
Is it a bug in the software.

No it is not a bug -- it is the way VS has always behaved if, as I suspect, you are using either File > Insert Media File to Timeline or you are right clicking in the timeline and choosing 'Insert Video File. In those cases, the selected video will always appear at the end of the other videos already in the timeline.

However, if the video has a thumbnail in the library window, you can drag and drop the thumbnail wherever you like in the timeline.

[xinnjstar]

which track are you inserting the images to - and how are you doing it

With ready made projects like the one you are using it is very difficult to insert images any where other than in the placeholders provided and I have explained how to do that.

Hi, I have deleted the placeholders pics so there is an empty space and reinserted with my own pics and it move to the end of the timeline.

[xinnjstar]

Another thing is why I inserted picture into the timeline where there is empty space, the picture move to the end of the track.
It should be inserted into the timeline position as where is inserted in and not move to the end of the track.
Is it a bug in the software.

No it is not a bug -- it is the way VS has always behaved if, as I suspect, you are using either File > Insert Media File to Timeline or you are right clicking in the timeline and choosing 'Insert Video File. In those cases, the selected video will always appear at the end of the other videos already in the timeline.

However, if the video has a thumbnail in the library window, you can drag and drop the thumbnail wherever you like in the timeline.

I have inserted pics not video.
Maybe you said is not a bug, but the software should handled pics inserted into the timeline and not move it to the end of the timeline.
VS should make the correction to this. If video I can said because of length of time for the video cannot fix into the timeline, pics it should handle it nicely.
Even if it is video, it can prompt " video length does not fit into timeline space, time is shorten to the timeline length".
And does anyone done before , copying attributes from a pic (landscape) to another pic (portrait), it really does not handle as what it does.
Attributes are are not done correctly, pics sizes become tiny though I untick them so as not to have the black stripes on both sides. Though this is pic in pic filter effect, but the pic size are too tiny as compare to when I inserted them in.

[Ken Berry]

Maybe you said is not a bug, but the software should handled pics inserted into the timeline and not move it to the end of the timeline.
VS should make the correction to this. If video I can said because of length of time for the video cannot fix into the timeline, pics it should handle it nicely.

In essence, a picture is the same as a video when it comes to a video editing program. If you insert a picture, it will have a minimum length of 1 frame, but in reality, like a video clip, it will consist of many frames. If you want the picture to stay on the screen for, say, 5 seconds, then for PAL it will consist of 125 frames and for NTSC 150 frames. That is like a video clip of 5 seconds which will have the same number of frames. So don't get sidetracked by whether you are inserting pictures or videos.

And as I said above:

... if the video has a thumbnail in the library window, you can drag and drop the thumbnail wherever you like in the timeline.

Are your pictures already in the library window, and are you trying to drag them from there into the timeline, or are you right clicking in the timeline and choosing 'Insert Photo' or File > Insert Media Files to Timeline > Insert Photo? The last two options will always result in the picture being placed at the end of the timeline, after everything else. Only the first method will insert the picture where you want it to go.

Sure, you have all sorts of ideas of what the program *should* do. But this is a user to user web board. None of us work for Corel, and so have no say in the design of the program. All we can do is help other users like you learn the way it *actually* works. And I have tried to do that.