24 p help

david-ruby wrote on 3/24/2008, 11:54 AM

I am taking 60i dv footage and editing on the timeline.
The project setting is set to 24p widescreen.
What I notice is that the preview window does not show me the widescreen look.
It is instead a squeezed together box that does not fill the preview itself.
I am confused on how this will come out in the end render.
Is there away to make it so you can actually see the outcome while working?

Also I followed Spot's tutorial on taking dv footage and turning it into 24p but some of my footage comes out abit blurry than normal.

What I am doing is this. I open vegas 8 and go to properties and make the project a 24p widescreen for starts.
Then I bring in the footage and edit.
Then I render down to dvd arch 24p wide screen.
Sound correct to all?

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S35 wrote on 3/25/2008, 12:15 PM

Hi David17, I'm not a pro, but I'll try to help if I can.

I assume your 60i footage is widescreen, and as far as "squeezed together" is concerned, do you mean a squashed aspect ratio (ie, people look tall and skinny), or is it black bars around the video?

If it looks squashed, then try right clicking your preview window and check simulate device aspect ratio.

Let me know if this helps.

PS: Like I said, I'm not a pro, but I've found converting 60i lower field first dv into progressive looks terrible. Doing the same thing in HDV looks perfect however--- HDV is also upper field first by the way.
I've never read Spot's tutorial... maybe he's found a way.

david-ruby wrote on 3/26/2008, 9:10 AM

Yes It does looked squashed. When I look at the properties of the video I see the pixel aspect needs to be changed to widescreen to show up in the preview as wide screen.
I wonder if there is a script that can change all my video files at once to widescreen pixel aspect?

David R

S35 wrote on 3/26/2008, 12:19 PM

Hi David, if you captured your SD video in Vegas, it should come out with the correct pixel aspect ratio automatically (providing your camera was set to widescreen).

However, I've noticed files rendered in the Cineform AVI codec have a square pixel aspect ratio when added to the timeline; even when you have selected 1.2121 (widescreen) in the custom video template before rendering.

So... if you captured with Cineform, it might be giving you the same issue... but I can't say for sure, because I don't own Cineform.

S35 wrote on 3/26/2008, 12:53 PM

You also might want to try re-posting your question titled as something like: Pixel Aspect Ratio Wrong!! Please Help!!

This might generate more responses, as it would be more specific to your problem (I'm saying this because there was a 24p thread recently, and maybe people think that 24p is your problem, when it is actually the Pixel Aspect Ratio).

Include information as to what you used for capturing (if the files that look messed up are indeed the captured files and not rendered ones), and what Pixel Aspect Ratio is showing up in the properties (ie. 1.0000 instead of 1.2121).

Hope this helps, and I will continue checking this thread in case you decide not to re-post.

-Copperplate