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Portrait image side filler
AlanR47
Senior Member Location: Norfolk UK Joined: Dec 08, 2017 05:01 Messages: 151 Offline
[Post New] Jan 14, 2018 15:42
On Movavi there was a feature to infill the sides to full HD when you used a portrait image (still or video) - does PD16 have an equivalent? Looked but can't see the wood for the trees!

Addition: did a search and this question was asked sometime in 2015 and one quite good answer (sorry I forgot who) suggested stretching the image, blurring it and placing it behind the portrait version - a little bit involved as opposed to movavi which singleclick applied it to either portrait video or stills.

Any better/neater method out there?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Jan 14. 2018 16:40

ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
[Post New] Jan 14, 2018 16:38
Hi Alan -

There's no instant side filler in PDR.

The simplest thing is to add either a duplicate or similar shot (with heavy blur/darkening/lightening applied) in track 1, so your photo overlays it. See attached screenshot.

Cheers - Tony
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AlanR47
Senior Member Location: Norfolk UK Joined: Dec 08, 2017 05:01 Messages: 151 Offline
[Post New] Jan 14, 2018 16:52
Quote Hi Alan -

There's no instant side filler in PDR.

The simplest thing is to add either a duplicate or similar shot (with heavy blur/darkening/lightening applied) in track 1, so your photo overlays it. See attached screenshot.

Cheers - Tony


Thanks Tony - we colided with much the same solution, not perhaps as simple as Movavi - but we can do a very passable equivalent. Its mostly photos I come across that need this treatment.

Would be nice of there were an external program that could apply this to a portrait input.

Thanks for your input.

Alan.
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