Pan and Zoom Portrait

[Willard M]

Does anyone know how or if it is even possible to turn the advanced pan and zoom red box 90 degrees so as to get rid of the black fill in on either side of a portrait picture. It works fine for landscape but not for portrait without cropping much of the heigth from the picture.

[ggrussell]

Does anyone know how or if it is even possible to turn the advanced pan and zoom red box 90 degrees so as to get rid of the black fill in on either side of a portrait picture. It works fine for landscape but not for portrait without cropping much of the heigth from the picture.

??? What makes you think that would work? There is no such thing as 'portrait' in video. Turning the 'red box' sideways wouldn't accomplish much. Standard definition video is 4:3 and you can't change that. If you have a 'portrait' still image, you two choices only: black bars on each side or crop the image to fit. That's it.

[jeanrosenfeld]

For completeness,

 

There is a third choice, if you don't want black borders but don't want to crop, you can replace the black borders with a colour of your choice by adding the portrait picture as an overlay on a coulored panel. Or you could edit the picture in suitable graphics software (photosuite offers some possibilities, but I find Paintshop pro gives me more flexibility), adding frame or borders to left and right of it to change its aspect ratio to 4:3. There are also masking overlays in Videowave, but I don't find them very suitable for portrait images.

[Willard M]

For completeness,

 

There is a third choice, if you don't want black borders but don't want to crop, you can replace the black borders with a colour of your choice by adding the portrait picture as an overlay on a coulored panel. Or you could edit the picture in suitable graphics software (photosuite offers some possibilities, but I find Paintshop pro gives me more flexibility), adding frame or borders to left and right of it to change its aspect ratio to 4:3. There are also masking overlays in Videowave, but I don't find them very suitable for portrait images.

[jeanrosenfeld]

You quote me, but did you want to add a comment as well? :-)

 

OK I got your PM