Open clips in preview monitor in full aspect ratio?

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Open clips in preview monitor in full aspect ratio?

PostThu May 23, 2024 4:58 pm

If I'm editing a 16:9 project and have 3:2 source material, when opening a clip in the preview monitor, I see the clip in a 16:9 window, and it's shown with pillar boxes, so I can see the entire source:

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3:2 content for 16:9 project
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However when editing a 9:16 project, the preview is also 9:16, but the clip fills the frame so I can't see the entire thing:
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3:2 content for 9:16 project
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It seems the only way to see the entire source clip is by looking at the thumbnail and scrubbing that. What am I missing? Even the Project settings for scaling are set to "scale entire image to fit", so this really doesn't make sense:
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project settings
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