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Often you have thought about the composition of the image. This work should not be influenced by cropping. Even in this case, you do not have to accept black borders. Three variants are described below.

Variant 1: The Picture-in-Picture effect

With the Picture-in-Picture effect, your image is automatically shown against a background that is created from your image. The Picture-in-Picture effect is ideal for portrait images and portrait videos, or even for 3:2 shots in a 16:9 project. Among other things, you can influence the image size of the foreground image and colorize or blur the background.

Simply drag the effect from Toolbox onto your image. You can learn more about this object effect in the Picture-in-Picture chapter.

Variant 2: Use tracks to design the foreground and background

Alternatively, we recommend working with multiple tracks. In the chapter Working with multiple tracks you will learn how to do this. The tracks within a chapter allow you to use images as background while other images appear in the foreground.

1.To do this, hold down the mouse button and drag a chapter from Toolbox to Timeline.

2.Drag an Image object into the chapter and select an image to serve as background.

3.Then drag another Image object under this image to the "Drag here to create new track" label. Now select all images that should appear in the foreground.

Variant 3: Show multiple images

If there are portrait images in your project, you can also place two images next to each other in the Layout designer and display them simultaneously.

1.Drag a chapter from the Toolbox to the Timeline while holding down the mouse button.

2.Now drag an Image object into the chapter, select two images.

3.Now drag one of the portrait images under the other one (again on the "Drag here to create new track" lettering).

4.In the Layout designer, you can place or rotate the images as you like.

In addition, you can give the images a frame. You can find a selection in the Toolbox under the tab Image effects - Frames.
To show several images at the same time, the layout effect is also suitable.

Example: 3:2 photos without black bars and bleed

Most SLR cameras take photos in the 3:2 aspect ratio. Some photographers place a lot of emphasis on image composition, so it is sometimes undesirable to crop the image to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio. However, playback devices are more common with 16:9 aspect ratio, so if you forgo cropping, you will see black bars on the sides. This is also undesirable in some cases. There are many solutions to this dilemma, with varying results and degrees of difficulty. Most often, there is a desire that the focus is on the photos and no animations or effects are used. Here, too, there are numerous variants.

In the following example you can see how to insert images that do not have the aspect ratio of the project without cropping and without black borders.