How to shrink an image with the Video Sequence Editor I know how to add the effect strip and transform to resize a given image. This works when I have a low res image that I want to enlarge. But when the image is too high of a resolution and I scale it down, the image is windowboxed. It's as though the render frame is being transformed and not the source image file.



Is there a way around this besides modifying the image file in an external program e.g. GIMP?

Edit

To clarify - here is the image that's imported to show the missing pixels.
When import image into VSE, it is true that the original aspect will be changed to match the scene resolution. To fix this, you can simply add another Transform strip to first Transform (NOT the picture strip itself).

So, basically one for Uniform scale, and another one for aspect ratio correction.







P.S.: When setting the second Transform scale, be sure to set the longest side to 1.000, which is X in this case.