Thanks that worked perfectly! Didn't even know that button existed.

So while I try to resize the image, it works the opposite as it should. In the "pan/crop" effect, if I stretch the box bigger, the image shrinks, and if I make the box smaller, the image grows.... because of this strangeness, I can only shrink the image so much, and it's not enough.

I tried using the cookie cutter, which helps a bit, but when I try to go back to the pan/crop to rotate it, and change the size more precisely, WOW it starts acting weird. It gets all distorted, creating more of a diamond shape rather than a proper rectangle.

Is there a better way to do things like crop, rotate, feather, so that all this wonkiness doesn't happen?

I am not 100% sure what You mean but in Vegas You are not operating with image but with camera. That's why when You shrink the camera area, image grows.

Maybe Picture in Picture FX effect would help but I have Vegas 18 and I don;t know if it is available in Vegas 14.

Sorry to bother you again with this issue, but the pan/crop tool for Vegas is just so counter intuitive to me.
I have an image that I was to be shrunk down, and then up in the top right corner of my video. I can shrink it just fine, then I can move it to the right just fine, but if I try to make it go up, it gets cut off, like there's an imaginary crop happening, when I'm not asking it to do that.
How do I just move images upwards without them getting cut off?

EDIT:
So, if I drag the image around without shrinking it, it can go anywhere on the screen. But, as I shrink it, the area of the screen it can occupy shrinks too. The more I scale it in the Y axis, the more top and bottom because unavailable to the picture, and crops it. This is soooo bizarre...

EDIT 2:
Turning off "maintain aspect ratio" in the source category allows it to go in the top/bottom sections while shrinked, but I would like to keep the aspect ratio, so the picture looks normal. Why is the aspect ratio of the image stopping it from being in the top/bottom portions while the scale is shrunk?

EDIT 3: (lol)
I figured out a workaround, but the general idea of what Vegas is doing is still idiotic. I turn off maintain aspect ratio, so I can use the whole screen. Then I hold down control to drag the corner for scaling, which will keep it the same aspect ratio manually. This way the problem doesn't arise, even though it really shouldn't in the first place. As least I can get it to look the way I want.

I think You did it correctly. And this is the way of working with cameras.