Prem. 6.5/PP2.0 question
 

When you import a .psd or .jpg to use as a motion graphic, how praytell do you get the software to keep from scaling it? There are options for maintaining the aspect ratio, but what I want is to keep it from blowing the little pic up that I want to float through the frame. The only solution I could think of, was to create a large white box around the tiny pic and try to make it transparent, and that seems absurd.

I tried it in both 6.5 (yes, I'm a sucker for A/B editing) and PP2.0, but in both cases, the picture gets scaled to fit the frame. You can zoom the pic using the motion controls, but I wasn't able to get it to stay at the same size throughout the whole motion path.

Any help would be appreciated :)

For PPro2.0: Try reading about keyframes. If you set a size in the first keyframe and the same size in the second keyframe, the image should stay the same size between them.

In PPRO, right click on the image and check or uncheck "scale to frame size" as desired. You can also change the default for this in your preferences.

Curt Wrigley

aha...
 

That was the ticket...the scale to frame size. Thanks! I finally figured out how to add extra keyframes, and to change the scaling on each one. I'm a writer, not an editor, but I'm trying to learn these things :)

Now I just need to figure out whether it's possible to have 2 pictures in motion on the screen at the same time. (I wanted one to come on and "knock" the other one off) but I can't make it work. I'm thinking After Affects might be my next stop.

Anyway, sorry for the dumb question. If I'd thought out better what I was after, I could've probably found it in the help, but thanks for pointing me in the right direction.