HD to SD (NTSC DV)

Former user wrote on 7/14/2010, 5:51 PM

I've just edited my first HD video project (1440 x 1080) and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to how to output to an NTSC DV SD format (MP2 for DVD) that will scale the video to 720 x 480 and crop the sides of the video to conform to full screen NTSC (without messing with the aspect) without having to re-edit the whole thing as an NTSC project?

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:20 PM

Are you talking about eliminating the thin black bars when going from HDV 16:9 to SD 16:9 (DVD Widescreen), or do you really mean HDV 16:9 to SD 4:3 (DVD)?

They are both simple solutions but are entirely different.

Former user wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:40 PM

The current project template is: HDV 1080-60i (1440x1080, 29.970 fps) and I want to output to: NTSC DV (720x480, 29.970 fps).

We shot the footage in HD, but we used a monitor mask to be sure to keep all of the action within the NTSC safearea.

I did just get the results I need by rendering the entire project to a new HDV (mt2) file and then starting a new (NTSC DV) project and importing the single mt2 file. I set the clip PAN/CROP to match output aspect and rendered an MPG2 (NTSC DVD) and it looks great!

So, I guess I answered my own question ;-)

BTW - I'm editing this project in Vegas 8.1 -- worked on it all day (133 clips in the media bin) with graphics and color correction without a single issue!

Jim

musicvid10 wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:45 PM

Knowing now that you want 4:3 output, that would have been my suggestion.