16x9... I as lost

KJonyou wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:15 PM
OK, I shot a vacation video with a new 3CCD cam and I left the settings on 16x9. Now that I am home trying to put my memories into Vegas, I have realized I am totaly lost wth all the possable settings, 16x9, vs Widescreen in, Vegas and DVD ARC etc.

In a nutshell, it looks like my actual video frames contain black bars in the image itself to create the 16x9, so I can not change that. My goal is to have this video play full screen without any black bars, with no stretching on a flat panel TV (which I dont have yet).

Is this possable? I am confused about saving square pixel, 16x9 and wide screen settings. I need a book I know, any advice or links to advice would be a lot of help. Do flat panel TVs zoom in to Safe Frame or do they stretch?

Thanks in advance

Comments

garo wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:18 PM
I belive (from own experiance) that you are S.O.L. unless you can accept cropping it to desired format.

//Garo
Jessariah67 wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:23 PM
You can crop the sides out and zoom in, but that's going to grain up your picture a bit. Try rendering it normally and keeping the letterbox. It's becoming more and more common to see that - especially for 4:3 viewers who watch widescreen DVDs. If I have the choice, I will watch wide over full on a 4:3 set any day.
KJonyou wrote on 3/11/2005, 2:17 AM
I have read conflicting opinion from other people who bough this camera. It says:

"16:9 widescreen modeThe PV-GS200 supports a letterboxed image. Not stretched, just black bars on top and bottom"

So are you guys saying I should stick to letterbox setting with the black bars? I tried the 16x9 setting and it put a bask black frame around the whole thing but it looked in perportion. Can that be zoomed in on a Flat Screen ?

I am still confused, do good vidoe cameras actually film in 16x9 and output with no black sides? And would converting to square pixel make a difference?
farss wrote on 3/11/2005, 3:21 AM
Real 16:9 cameras record with a different pixel aspect ratio than standard DV. Others ways it can be done is with an anamorphic lens which achieves much the same thing.
How do you want your output to be. I'd suggest using event pan/crop to cutout the centre image in a 16:9 project to give you true 16:9. Render out as PAL/NTSC widescreen or encode to mpeg-2 using a widescreen template and author a widescreen DVD.
When you open a Vegas project set the project properties to widescreen PAL / NTSC, then open event pan/crop, RClick and select Match Output Aspect. That should do it.
Bob.