Slideshow photos fill (not fit) frame on import?

[JohnnyAirstream]

Creating a slideshow (with effects) in Premiere Pro CC with a square aspect ratio. Importing photos of all different sizes, resolutions, and aspect ratios. How can I import them to automatically FILL (not fit) the sequence square (1:1) frame without having to scale them up or down manually to remove letterboxes or pillarboxes? Again, I don't mind repositioning manually as necessary but I do not want to rescale them manually to remove the black pillar/letterboxes. Under Preferences > General I know you can select the "Default Scale to Frame Size" which then fits the photo within the frame, but if the original aspect ratio differs from the sequence frame aspect ratio, pillar or letterboxes occur. I don't mind repositioning a few photos to center the subject, but I don't want to rescale hundreds of photos to accomplish this.

Another way to ask the question is: is there a workflow to accomplish the same thing in a single step for hundreds of photos without doing each photo individually if it cannot be done on import?

[Ann Bens]

If your still do not match the display aspect ration of the frame perfectly the answer is no.

In other words if your frame is 1920x1080 your still needs to be 1920x1080 or twice the size or three times the size or 1/2 the size or what ever size.

1920x1080 means 16:9 so do your stills need to be.

Default Scale to Frame Size will fill out top and bottom to 100%

Set the Framesize will also fill top and bottom but at original resolution.

[JohnnyAirstream]

Wow, with as powerful as Adobe is, this is both very discouraging and very disappointing. I assume they deny this capability because they cannot guess which portion of the photo the user is ok with sending off screen. Still, give us the capability and let us decide whether it's appropriate or not.

[Ann Bens]

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

[Meg The Dog]

Are you familiar with After Effects? There is a 3rd party preset called Prolost Burns that will do what you to do, very easily:

Tutorial/overview:

Prolost Burns v1.7 for After Effects on Vimeo

And is available for purchase here:

https://www.proloststore.com/products/burns

MtD

[JohnnyAirstream]

Well, what a great idea! But shouldn't the multi-billion dollar software company called Adobe provide this capability included in the price of the software we pay monthly for?

[shooternz]

It was designed to edit video / movies...Not Slideshows.

[Meg The Dog]

If you want this functionality added to an Adobe product, you need to file a feature request:

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

MtD

[Ann Bens]

Prolost is a grand plugin.

I own it myself (forgot all about it).

For fancy slideshows I would recommend Proshowgold.

[Kib]

Assuming all photos have the same "wrong" aspect ratio I would suggest trying an adjustment layer with the transform effect applied to it.  You would then use a common uniform scale.

[JohnnyAirstream]

As stated, the still photos are all of different varying sizes, resolutions, and aspect ratios. So, no, they are not all the same "wrong".