Hi,
I’ve tried searching for this as I’m a newbie but there isn’t anything that quite matches my problem, so I’m sorry if I’ve missed it.
I’m trying to make a slideshow with images with different aspect ratios. I want to preserve the aspect ratio and not autocrop so I choose the “Pad Black” option in the Slideshow Generator window.
If I set “Zoom effect” to a non-zero value the slideshow is generated as I would expect. The Size, Position and Rotate filter is automatically added to the still images and crucially the background colour is set to black.
However if I use a value of zero for “Zoom effect” then there is no filter added to the images and the transition from a wide image to a narrow one leaves bands from the wide image continuously on the edges through the transition before they abruptly vanishes at the end of the crossfade.
Below (hopefully) is a screengrab from the main Shotcut window towards the end of a transition from an African sunset picture to a penguins picture.
So I think I can’t use the Add Selected to Slideshow feature at the moment unless I pre-process all my images to make them 16x9 with black bands as appropriate.
Or am I missing an easier way?
Its early days but I’m loving the product so far!
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.