Copying video effects: unexpected result?

terrypin wrote on 4/25/2013, 3:26 PM

I used Copy video effects on the portrait object and pasted to the landscape object.

As width and height were included in the copy/paste, I expected to see the landscape changed to portrait (and have to move it from the bottom left corner to a new position), but it also remains unchanged in shape. I've clearly misunderstood something basic here but haven't put my finger on it yet!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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ImSean wrote on 6/1/2013, 11:30 PM

Can you edit the picture externally to Portrait mode?

terrypin wrote on 6/2/2013, 5:58 AM

@GhostWolf007,

External editing is no problem. I'm puzzled why the internal copy/paste doesn't include a change to porrtait shape.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

johnebaker wrote on 6/2/2013, 1:04 PM

Hi Terry

Is the portrait image in it original orientation or is this a cropped image?

If in original orientation then trying to apply settings such as height/width to the landscape image would result in the swimmers being very tall !!!

AFAICS there is a degree of incompability in height/width between portrait and landscape images which would result in the above effect - so it should not be applied.

For the lanscape image to end up as a portrait image you must crop it and this is an entirely different operation to just using height width.

John

terrypin wrote on 6/3/2013, 2:36 AM

Hi John,

They were just original images. Noting that width and height were apparently about to be pasted from the P to the L object (those parameters weren't absent or greyed) I naively half expected MEP to make an intelligent 'centred crop'!

In practice W and H are merely sensibly ignored, leaving me with the choice of cropping internally or externally.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK