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Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/25/2014, 7:28 AM
What is the resolution of the video that StopMotion produces? What codec does it use? Is its pixel aspect ratio?

There are quite literally thousands of variations of AVI, so simply outputting an AVI doesn't ensure that it's a DV-compatible file.

One way to find out the specs of your AVI is to open it in a program like MediaInfo. This program will tell you the file's resolution, frame rate, codec and pixel aspect ratio -- all of which affect how the file will be interpolated in Movie Studio.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/25/2014, 9:34 AM
Use the "Match Media Settings" icon in your project, and render to the same output settings.
Damnlimey wrote on 6/16/2014, 11:44 AM
I'm a newbie to MSP so please forgive me for stating the obvious.
I use a Canon D7 to shoot video and stills. The video is a 1920x1080 raster, but this particular camera does not have a full frame sensor, rather it is akin to the APS (24mm) frame size back when celluloid was the medium, so the video capture is a center crop from the sensor. Still pictures use the full width of the sensor but this is NOT 1920 wide. The upshot is that if I want to add still shots into a movie I wind up with "pillar box" black bars either side (BTW "Letter box" refers to black bars top and bottom).
I get round this by photoshopping the stills first. I create a blank 1920x1080 pixel canvas and then "transform" - i.e. shrink the still into this frame. I will loose some info from the top and bottom, but at least it fills the movie frame.
I shot a stop motion sequence this past weekend but the daunting task of re-sizing accurately some 500+ single frames and ensuring the re-crop is EXACTLY the same on every frame is too much to contemplate.
I tried messing with the "pan/crop" option but that doesn't zoom the clip outside the borders to cover the black edges.
Is there a simple trick to do this?
musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2014, 12:34 PM
Sounds like an entirely different topic, Damnlimey.
You are welcome to start your own thread.
Chienworks wrote on 6/16/2014, 8:17 PM
Damnlimey: if you import the stills as a "still image sequence" (does your version of Vegas Movie Studio have this function?) then it behaves as a single video clip and you only have to pan/crop it once.

If you don't have this function, adjust the first one and then Ctrl-C to copy it, then select all the rest with the "select events to end" function and then "Paste event attributes". This will copy the pan/crop from the first to all the rest in one step.