OK, brace yourselves, this is going to be long ...
I have a Sony DV camera with 16:9 capability. I work in PAL.
I take the scenes with 16:9 activated. In the viewfinder and in the camera screen, I see proportionated images in a 16:9 format (black bands above and below).
I capture with VV3. Selecting my DV camera as source, VC3 doesn't give me any camera settings (everything is greyed out).
Then, I create a VV3 project. After many trials and several mistakes, I have come to the conclusion that, to have a proportionate 16:9 view of everything throughout the project, I must chose as my project settings: Template PAL DV (720x576, 25.000 fps) and Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.4568 (PAL DV Widescreen).
Are you still there ? OK, bear with me please ...
This way, when I look in the Video Preview I read: Project: 720x576 Preview 180x144 Display 240x192. And I *see* a "very" stretched-up picture (I would say, square) inside a rectangle (maybe 4:3 aspect) with two *vertical* black bands ...
OK, no big deal... I must "only" go through *all* (500 to 800 !) video clips in the Media Pool and change their properties. In *each one* I find that Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.0926 (PAL DV), that's what Video Capture gave me, no settings allowed. And I must change it to 1.4568 (PAL DV Widescreen). As if by magic, presto!!! The two *vertical* black bands disappear and I am left with a "quite" stretched-up picture with a rectangular format (maybe 4:3 aspect)... no black bands.
Hmmm... still not there... but almost. Because, I *finally* change the Video Preview window to Display Square Pixels and ... voilá !!! Display: 349x192 and a pretty 16:9 aspect (no black bands to be seen anywhere).
Finally, I can start to get what I paid for ... FUN and CREATIVITY !!!
It all goes well until the end, but then I *must* remember to Render as PAL DV (*not* widescreen) so that I get what I was aiming for: a 4:3 rectangle with a 16:9 image and two horizontal black bands. And it plays like heaven in my 16:9 TV, where the black bands reduce to a insignificant strip along the top and base.
Am I happy ? NO, I AM NOT HAPPY ! I AM NOT HAPPY AT ALL !!! Because VV3 seems not knowing that I *want* to have a 16:9 and keeps on reminding me that Vegas !*wants*! me to have a 4:3 picture !!!
For example, if I do a Spiral transition, the flying image carries 2 small BLACK RECTANGLES above and below the clip, and what really flies is a 4:3 image... AND it spirals over the black rectangles that border the main image ... very very unprofessional ...
Or, if I do a Zoom transition, I get two small rectangles zooming also ... silly !
Or, if I do a Pixelan Spicemaster transition, say a Organic FX Fluids, it will *smear* from the top black rectangle to the bottom black rectangle !!! DISGUSTING !!!
Or, if I superimpose a still picture on a track over the video track, I align everything with the Event Pan/Crop Tool and everything seems neat in the Video Preview window, but when I render, the picture "grows" over the top and bottom of the video image and spoils all the previewed proportions. CRIME !!! KILL !!! BLOOD !!!
Etc, etc etc...
Did you notice? I said that in the Video Preview window I see everything beautiful. Vegas cheats me, making me believe that everything is under control, and only much later, when I render, do I see the mess that I created ...
Ah, yes... The mess also reveals itself if I Selectively Prerender a Loop Region (*but* I must uncheck Display Square Pixels to see it straight during the Prerendered Loop Region *and* ridiculously stretched before and after the loop...). And then again, what's the use? If I wanted to prerender I would go to Premiere...
Steven Spielberg ? No, I am not, but I am not dumb either and I am very P****D UP right now...
IS THIS A BUG? SLOPPY PROGRAMMING? OR SLOPPY ME?
Forum, spare a hint ... ?
VEGAS, care a word ? please ? please tell me what's wrong ? pleeeeeease .....
I have a Sony DV camera with 16:9 capability. I work in PAL.
I take the scenes with 16:9 activated. In the viewfinder and in the camera screen, I see proportionated images in a 16:9 format (black bands above and below).
I capture with VV3. Selecting my DV camera as source, VC3 doesn't give me any camera settings (everything is greyed out).
Then, I create a VV3 project. After many trials and several mistakes, I have come to the conclusion that, to have a proportionate 16:9 view of everything throughout the project, I must chose as my project settings: Template PAL DV (720x576, 25.000 fps) and Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.4568 (PAL DV Widescreen).
Are you still there ? OK, bear with me please ...
This way, when I look in the Video Preview I read: Project: 720x576 Preview 180x144 Display 240x192. And I *see* a "very" stretched-up picture (I would say, square) inside a rectangle (maybe 4:3 aspect) with two *vertical* black bands ...
OK, no big deal... I must "only" go through *all* (500 to 800 !) video clips in the Media Pool and change their properties. In *each one* I find that Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.0926 (PAL DV), that's what Video Capture gave me, no settings allowed. And I must change it to 1.4568 (PAL DV Widescreen). As if by magic, presto!!! The two *vertical* black bands disappear and I am left with a "quite" stretched-up picture with a rectangular format (maybe 4:3 aspect)... no black bands.
Hmmm... still not there... but almost. Because, I *finally* change the Video Preview window to Display Square Pixels and ... voilá !!! Display: 349x192 and a pretty 16:9 aspect (no black bands to be seen anywhere).
Finally, I can start to get what I paid for ... FUN and CREATIVITY !!!
It all goes well until the end, but then I *must* remember to Render as PAL DV (*not* widescreen) so that I get what I was aiming for: a 4:3 rectangle with a 16:9 image and two horizontal black bands. And it plays like heaven in my 16:9 TV, where the black bands reduce to a insignificant strip along the top and base.
Am I happy ? NO, I AM NOT HAPPY ! I AM NOT HAPPY AT ALL !!! Because VV3 seems not knowing that I *want* to have a 16:9 and keeps on reminding me that Vegas !*wants*! me to have a 4:3 picture !!!
For example, if I do a Spiral transition, the flying image carries 2 small BLACK RECTANGLES above and below the clip, and what really flies is a 4:3 image... AND it spirals over the black rectangles that border the main image ... very very unprofessional ...
Or, if I do a Zoom transition, I get two small rectangles zooming also ... silly !
Or, if I do a Pixelan Spicemaster transition, say a Organic FX Fluids, it will *smear* from the top black rectangle to the bottom black rectangle !!! DISGUSTING !!!
Or, if I superimpose a still picture on a track over the video track, I align everything with the Event Pan/Crop Tool and everything seems neat in the Video Preview window, but when I render, the picture "grows" over the top and bottom of the video image and spoils all the previewed proportions. CRIME !!! KILL !!! BLOOD !!!
Etc, etc etc...
Did you notice? I said that in the Video Preview window I see everything beautiful. Vegas cheats me, making me believe that everything is under control, and only much later, when I render, do I see the mess that I created ...
Ah, yes... The mess also reveals itself if I Selectively Prerender a Loop Region (*but* I must uncheck Display Square Pixels to see it straight during the Prerendered Loop Region *and* ridiculously stretched before and after the loop...). And then again, what's the use? If I wanted to prerender I would go to Premiere...
Steven Spielberg ? No, I am not, but I am not dumb either and I am very P****D UP right now...
IS THIS A BUG? SLOPPY PROGRAMMING? OR SLOPPY ME?
Forum, spare a hint ... ?
VEGAS, care a word ? please ? please tell me what's wrong ? pleeeeeease .....