How do I get aspect ratio right in WMV9m renders?

Zendorf wrote on 6/17/2003, 12:29 AM

I am rendering some clips for the web using Windows Media Video9 from Vegas 4, which is yielding some nice compressed clips but they are squashed as the encoder is not taking into account the aspect ratio for PAL( ie. 1.093). I am rendering from PAL DV footage to halfsize PAL(360x288) but as there is no aspect ratio option in the Vegas WMV options I am just getting square pixels (ie looking squashed).

Is there any way around this other than using the MS standalone encoder as I would rather do it all from Vegas, like I do for Quicktime and Divx (which both take the aspect ratio into account). I have tried to increase the vertical size by 1.092 but Vegas won't render to a non standard size like that, and of course it would add to the filesize. Any help from the Vegas masters would be appreciated!

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mikkie wrote on 6/17/2003, 10:02 AM

Try setting the clip properties to the correct aspect, set the proj to square at the size you want to output, set the encoder to use proj. size...

Vegas should convert any pixel aspect before reaching the wmv encoder plugin... And as there really is no pixel aspect on the web to a PC... Besides, the pixel aspect ratio settings in the MS encoder are perhaps questionable.

Zendorf wrote on 6/18/2003, 12:15 AM

Thanks heaps mikkie as changing the clip and proj properties to square sure did the trick. It is strange that when rendering to Quicktime or Divx from Vegas doesn't require these steps, but hey whatever works!

SonyDennis wrote on 6/20/2003, 5:02 PM

Vegas should be correcting for the PAL pixel aspect ratio. Are you sure you didn't have the "stretch video to fill output frame size (don't letterbox)" checked by accident?
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