Imported Photos Fill Screen At 30% In Motion Window ! Why ?

When I started writing this, it was a question, but 20 minutes later, after some tests, I think it may now be answered !
Last night I noticed this unusual situation.
I was trying to answer a forum question about feathered edges on reduced sized images. So I imported some still photos (2560x1920) and was reducing them in Motion to produce a split screen effect.
I opened the Motion tab and double clicked the photo in the timeline. To my surprise, the Scale slider immediately jumped to 30%.
When I returned the slider to 100% the photo was greatly magnified.
After puzzling over it I trashed the preferences to no avail.
This morning I tried the same with proper DV footage and of course it behaved normally ...... the image filled the screen when the slider was at 100% etc.
On reflection, I have come to the conclusion that the photos "normal" setting is 30% because they are just over 3 times the length of a normal DV frame (counting their pixels).
I have just tested with another different sized photo (1792x1200) and this comes out at 42% which figures as the picture is around 2.5 times larger than DV.
It looks as though I have answered my own question, though I am surprised that I never noticed it before.
Are my conclusions correct ?
Ian.

Yes. FCE autoscales the image when it's placed in the timeline. In versions prior to 4 it would only scale the image down. In v4 it will also scale up to fill the screen as best it can without distorting the aspect ratio.

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