easy (hopefully) resolution question

masmedia wrote on 12/1/2007, 4:21 PM

Hi,

I shot a project in 16 X 9 widescreen, and want to render to SD in Vegas 6 as an MPEG 2 for Architect. What's the best render settings for the highest quality and not stretching? Ideally, I'd like my video to fill a widescreen TV and have letterbox on a standard 4:3 screen.

Thanks in advance for all your kind help!

mas

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 12/1/2007, 4:30 PM

Try the DVD Architect widescreen templates. That's what they're intended for.

masmedia wrote on 12/1/2007, 7:13 PM

when I use these, everything in the video looks fat (stretched a bit). If I render in normal NTSC, it's fine. Is there a way to get the wide look w/o the stretch?

thanks

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/1/2007, 7:16 PM

if you shot in wide screen, used a widescreen project in vegas & DVDA then it should be widescreen when you play it back. if you didn't do one of those then it could look funny.

Chienworks wrote on 12/1/2007, 7:22 PM

OK, next question ... is your originally material trully widescreen, or is it 16:9 matted inside a 4:3 frame with black bars on top and bottom?

masmedia wrote on 12/1/2007, 7:27 PM

my philosophy exactly! actually, I just went through this again, and made sure all 3 were in widescreen, and what was throwing me off was my monitor in Vegas showed everything stretched tall. I overcame this by checking "simulate device aspect ratio" by right clicking on the monitor icon on the monitor in the application. Even before that, I looked at what I rendered, and it was fine, telling me it had to be a monitor issue.

thanks for the advice.