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mcdon47
mcdon47
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October 29, 2018
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Resize photo to use as backdrop in Premiere Elements 2018

  • October 29, 2018
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After filming in a studio using green sheet, I used Chroma keying in Premiere Elements 2018. I had to use a photograph supplied by the team but the photo is 4:3 and when viewing the video clip, it shows thick black strips on the left and right hand side. How do I resize the photo?

Thanks in anticipation.

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    mcdon47
    mcdon47Author
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    November 4, 2018

    Here it is:

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    Steve Grisetti
    Legend
    November 4, 2018

    Resize your background photo to 1920x1080 pixels.

    Your photo is likely more square than your video frame, so you'll need to crop off a bit of the top and bottom to get this size -- but then the picture will perfectly fill the video frame.

    mcdon47
    mcdon47Author
    Known Participant
    November 3, 2018

    I sent the attachment from my email not from this forum as it doesn't seem possible to attach a file?

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    Community Expert
    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 4, 2018

    To capture, press "print screen" or "prt sc".  That puts it on your "clipboard".  Then on this forum, pressing CTRL+V will insert what is on your clipboard into the message.

    mcdon47
    mcdon47Author
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    November 2, 2018

    Please ignore the last question, I will post it in Photoshop Elements.

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    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 29, 2018

    Resizing is process of changing the number of bits in the file.

    Cropping is changing the shape.   A direct change of 4:3 to 16:9 will distort the image.  You will have to "crop" or "enlarge" the part of the image you want to keep.

    Many will use a photo editor to do the cropping to a new "frame ratio".

    It can be done in PrE.  Select the image and then click on the preview window.  Corners will get dots that you can grab to stretch the image to fill the frame.

    mcdon47
    mcdon47Author
    Known Participant
    November 2, 2018

    You suggested that it can be done in PrE (select the image and then click on the preview window; corners will get dots that you can grab to stretch the image to fill the frame). However, if I clicked the image the blue dots in the monitor panel are related to the video clip not the image. It doesn't seem possible to get the blue dots for the image because the video clip is over the top of the image which has black strips down each side. The only way I can do it is to move or shrink the video clip to access the image.

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    Community Expert
    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2018

    I'm not sure I understand the question.  Maybe a screen shot would help.

    On the chance I do understand, try reversing clip and image from Video 1 and Video 2. 

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