HDV Misunderstanding

mjroddy wrote on 11/14/2005, 5:26 PM

I'm finishing a project shot and edited in HDV (it's only a :30 cable spot). I'm trying to render this off to a WMV but when I do, my graphics fall outside the letterbox.
Everything looks great in Vega's preview monitor as well as on my NTSC monitor (just a TV being fed signal through a deck).
My generated media, my 32 bit TGA and my 32 bit MOV all go to "full size" and fall outside my video and into the black of letterbox.
Each is set to match the size and aspect ratio of the original project/footage.
How do I render a 3MB WMV that is WYSIWYG?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 11/14/2005, 6:07 PM

Set your preview window to square pixels/turn off Device Aspect Ratio.
That should turn the trick.720p or 1080i? 1080p?

mjroddy wrote on 11/14/2005, 7:28 PM

Thanks, but... alas... no.
I'm not stating myself clearly, doggon it.
When I have some time, I'll put up some stills of what this is doing to me.
In the mean time, my work around is to render to a track the entire sequence as a DV Widescreen. Then render that as both a WMV and a Print To Tape.
Otherwise, my graphics (all things NOT video) get wacky.
When I get home I'll post the snap shots of the problem.

ScottW wrote on 11/14/2005, 7:39 PM

I think I've seen this issue when going to WMV - render everything to DV, then bring in the DV clip and render to WMV and you should be ok.

mjroddy wrote on 11/14/2005, 10:12 PM

Yeah Scott. That's exactly (well, kind of "exactly") what I'm doing. Actually, I rendered to HDV Intermediary first.
I put together a small web page (along with the finished :30 spot) that details the problems, showing pics of before and after rendering.
Anyone who know more than I do - have any suggestions???

mjroddy wrote on 11/15/2005, 8:23 AM

Sorry... I forgot to add a link to the web site that showed the problems.
www.matthewroddy.com/hdvproblem
Thanks for any advice!

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/15/2005, 8:44 AM

I can't download the file, due to dialup in a hotel, but...
remember that 720p is a square pixel format, and 1080 is not.
1.333 PAR for 1080.

mjroddy wrote on 11/16/2005, 10:44 AM

Well, that commercial is on tape on now on the "air" (Cable, really). So I can think again.
Am I to assume that Scott's and my work-flow is the correct one?
Edit your project in HDV
Render To A Track as a single file
Then render that track to whatever final SD output you're looking for (in my case, a SD PTT and WVM)
Is this correct in order to keep all graphics true and correct?

DavidMcKnight wrote on 11/16/2005, 11:40 AM

"
1. Edit your project in HDV
2. Render To A Track as a single file
3. Then render that track to whatever final SD output you're looking for (in my case, a SD PTT and WVM)
Is this correct in order to keep all graphics true and correct?"

If you need SD WMV and PTT I think you want to set batch render to do two renders for you - one to an SD DV-AVI and one to SD WMV. Then, using the AVI file, do a PTT.