Hi Borate
"Use the MOTION|SCALE effect in the same way that you would opacity. Draw the blue line from bottom-left to top-right and you'll see an image that starts small and smoothly zooms in to maximum."
This control is, indeed, a "zoom" as your quite excellent demo shows, But "Scale" simply changes the IMAGE from big to small or small to big within the full frame leaving a black border when the image reaches a certain size. It's NOT a normal zoom in the cine telephoto sense. where the image is kept full frame the whole time with its contents getting larger or smaller.
In the previous version we had both crop and zoom that used red rectangles for showing the contents of the full image frame, and in the case of the zoom two frames for the control of adjustable rectangles for start and finish positions. Easy and quick to use.
The only control now to obtain this effect is the "crop" feature. where the contents of the full frame, represented by the red rectangle ( now only using one image and one rectangle) is manipulated with the key frame markers on the blue "effect line" to obtain the start and finish positions and size of the frame. But the borders do seem to jump about. However I am beginning to think this may be due to the fact I am viewing it in the preview window because a rendered avi does look smoother.
But what is happening to the options for forcing 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios?
It seems that if I select "Crop" from the "More effects" option in the drop down menu associated with the "Effects" button on the top toolbar these options don't appear. 
But if I select "Crop" from the drop down menu associated with the video effects window which appears when I click the yellow star and then add it, they DO appear! 
Is there a reason for this or is it a bug?
Nat
