Pan-and-Scan

Mike Kujbida · February 21st, 2008, 07:19 PM

Do you have a digital still camera?
Here's an experiment to try and see what happens when you do something like this.
Start a new Vegas project at standard size.
Import an image from your digital camera (hopefully the image is something like 2500 x 200 pixels or larger).
Drop this on the timeline, open the Pan/Crop window, right-click and select "Match Output Aspect".
Now zoom in on the image and do some panning around on it.
You'll see that, as long as you don't zoom in 10X, the image quality holds up quite well.
That's because the Pan/Crop tool is using the resolution of the original (much larger) image.
The same thing happens when you import a video clip that's larger than the default 720 x 480 into it. The resolution of the original clip is maintained.

Randy Strome · February 21st, 2008, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Kujbida

The resolution of the original clip is maintained.

That is terrific. Thanks Mike. A bit different than I am used to, but much easier.

Again,
Thanks for your guidance!

Mike Kujbida · February 22nd, 2008, 06:26 AM

Randy, I'm glad to hear that you got it sorted out.
Now start learning all the other great features that Vegas has :-)

February 21st, 2008, 07:19 PM	#16
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	Do you have a digital still camera? Here's an experiment to try and see what happens when you do something like this. Start a new Vegas project at standard size. Import an image from your digital camera (hopefully the image is something like 2500 x 200 pixels or larger). Drop this on the timeline, open the Pan/Crop window, right-click and select "Match Output Aspect". Now zoom in on the image and do some panning around on it. You'll see that, as long as you don't zoom in 10X, the image quality holds up quite well. That's because the Pan/Crop tool is using the resolution of the original (much larger) image. The same thing happens when you import a video clip that's larger than the default 720 x 480 into it. The resolution of the original clip is maintained.

February 22nd, 2008, 06:26 AM	#18
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	Randy, I'm glad to hear that you got it sorted out. Now start learning all the other great features that Vegas has :-)