Hi Chris,

This may help.
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Hi
The pan and crop are not working like they would in software like Sony Vegas 9. I have made a wish to Cyberlink to fix this so that one can independently move the crop/pan lines. I do this mainly for taking SD content in 720x480 format and changing the size of the frame from .9 to HDV 1.33 in properties and then re-rendering the whole project in HDV. It would make PD *+ a complete package to achieve this task that is problably wished for a long time. What Cyberlink is doing is maintaining the aspect ratio and when you do a resize. The problem with Cyberlink at this point is the locking of the ratio and not being able to change the frame size. Once they do this then Cyberlink will truely be the one package for my limited use of converting my SD to HD content and make it look really good. I hope this might give you some ideas about how to do real pan/crops.

Mike

Maybe I'm not quite getting what you want - I judge that you, in effect, need to have full manual control of the frame area and then control the frame area size and position to allow you to manually adjust the portions of SD video you require to then produce an HD output - customised upscaling I suppose?

Using the PiP tracks with Maintain AR switched off allows extensive re-positioning, oversizing and, in effect, cropping/zooming of content. Would that not do what you require?

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Mike,
I agree with Adrian's analysis - have you tried his suggestion?

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