Comments

Opampman wrote on 6/20/2007, 6:37 PM
Do you really want to mask to 9:16 or 16:9? The most common mask would be 16:9 and that's a standard option in Vegas.
Chienworks wrote on 6/20/2007, 7:28 PM
If by "9:16" you mean widescreen, then it's usually referred to as 16:9 and you'll have black stripes across the top and bottom, not up and down the sides. Look at Pan/Crop. As Opampman mentiones, there's a preset to do just this.

If you really want to do 9:16 (taller than wide) then you can enter your own parameters in Pan/Crop. For standard NTSC the mask would be 297 pixels wide by 480 high.
Per1 wrote on 6/22/2007, 2:11 AM
I meant 16:9 - a small typo.

two things:

1. I used Photoshop to create a mask (PS has some preset templates for 4:3 and 16:9) and placed it on top layer in Vegas.

2. Use the crop-preset 16:9 on the film

the following happened:

-- The black stripes generated by the Photoshop mask is some pixels higher and more "film" is cut off using that.

-- The photoshop mask is razor sharp in the border black/film whereas the Vegas cropping is unsharp.
Chienworks wrote on 6/22/2007, 3:54 AM
Very strange. For me, Vegas' mask is razor sharp. But, if you want to use the photoshop mask, you can always manually adjust it to fit. You don't have to put up with what photoshop gives you automatically.
Per1 wrote on 6/22/2007, 4:01 AM
With the crop the display in Vegas has about 1 pixel "greyish" (some average between black and "film" but the PS mask is dead-on. Perhaps it is due to the fact that the PS mask is wider(higher) than the Vegas crop and perhaps "hits" a pixel right-on but the Vegas crop falls between 2 pixels and tries and averge. I will have to test.

What do you think is the most accurate settings - the crop in Vegas or in Photoshop - odd that they don't mask the same area.