Another vegas how-to 16:9 mix

arcorob wrote on 8/20/2004, 7:58 AM

Question: Is it possible to MIX 16:9 clips with normal 4:3 clips in the same file ? Will it show up and render okay ? I am thinking of doing some 16:9 shots as the preamble for my wedding videos (shots in the church, etc) and was wondering if I have to do anything special if I incorporate those cliips with the main wedding clip....

Thanks in advance.....Rob

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tailgait wrote on 8/20/2004, 8:59 AM

The way I do it--successfully--is to import both 4:3 and 19:9 into a project which is set to "widescreen" in the preferences menu. I then click on the FIRST FRAME of my 4:3 clips (or stills)--this is very important--then go to pan/crop, right click on the picture and set the pull down menu to "match output video." I then render it all to tape using the "insert 2-3 pulldown" mode from the Print To Tape menu that comes up after clicking the PTT function. Everything will render out in 16:9. When you go back to your timeline, clips and stills will take on all different kinds of shapes, but they will still render out in 16:9. It looks funny on the timeline, but it works.
Burt

arcorob wrote on 8/20/2004, 10:19 AM

Umm...Not sure that was exactly what I was looking for ...Here is what I want to see.

First 5 minutes of video shot in 16:9
The rest in 4:3

so say I want to see it just that way.

I pult the 16:9 clip up frist, then the 4:3 on the timeline. Render as normal.

Will it come out as I envision or is it going to reformat one of these (stretch the 16:9 into 4:3 ? )

I just want to achieve the effect when I shoot 16:9, say shots of the altar, church, etc...Then fade to black...Then here we go, nomal 4:3

Is that what you were explaining ?

tailgait wrote on 8/20/2004, 11:38 AM

No. I thought you wanted it to all come out 16:9.

What you will have to do is ptrint to tape the 16:9 and then re-capture it in 4:3 and put that in a regular NTSC DV timeline, add your 4:3 and you have it.

Burt