I have a simple portrait of a person. I am not taking off the background and not adding anything else to the stage. I want the stage to be the exact same size as the image. How do I accomplish this?

If you mean you want the portrait to fill the camera then while in Camera Mode (not Stage Mode) zoom in until the portrait fills the camera view. You can also change the screen size in the Export tab to better fit the aspect ratio of your portrait.

You actually don't change the size of the stage but change the location of the view (Stage or Camera) by moving the view around the stage and closer or farther away from an object.

Jeff


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Thanks. I think I got it. However this is not very intuitive. I recommend a video on this. All we want to do in cameos in our curriculum and I could not find the way to do it. I finally used other for size - chose iPad and switched the dimensions to 768 x 1024 instead of what was there and enlarged the image to fit the window.
There should be more info on how to use the camera, though.

Personally, I find it very intuitive.  Think of the stage as a soundset for a movie or tv show, and the camera view is what the viewer sees.  Use the stage mode to stage your set and animations, then use the camera vierw to actually shoot the scene.  Very intuitive.

One question - How do you zoom in or enlarge the image without having the camera record the zooming?
I am not sure what I did for my first image because it worked. i resized the image to the stage and set the output size and all was well.
Now I have a second project and I cannot enlarge the image to the stage size without having the camera record the zooming which I do not want. I want it to stay the same size without zooming throughout the recording.

Just as and actor and props have transform keys so does the camera.

Move to the beginning of your timeline and set your zoom position there. Then it will stay the same througout unless you change it.

To remove an existing transform key for the camera go to the timeline and clikc on camera, then click on the transform button to show the camera transform track and delete any keys you see except for the first one farest to the left.


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