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I am having trouble maintaining the my frame ratio (video is 16:9) when I am importing stills and adding a zoom motion to them. The stills have been sized properly to the 16:9 ratio when they come in, but once I go the motion controls and set the keyframes for the motion, the zooming works but the whole images gets bigger as it is zooming. I want boundary to stay the same but to zoom in on the image. Please help.

I am new to this, so my explanations may be confusing. Let me try to explain my issue again. When I produce my final product I would like to it to be at a 16:9 ratio. From your last response it sounds like I should be able to achieve that through exporting in quicktime. All my video footage is already at 16:9. For the stills I am resizing them in Photoshop (taking into account the square to non-square pixel conversion) and bringing them into Final Cut Express. When I add zoom motion to those stills the image then fills the 4:3 view in the canvas. My video already looks letterboxed in the canvas, and I would like the stills to look the same.
Can this be solved simply through the exporting process or do I need to modify something in FCE? Whatever the solution, my goal is to maintain the highest resolution possible. Thanks.
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