How to render 640x480 to NTSC DV distortionless?

nolonemo wrote on 6/9/2004, 3:12 PM

I figured this out before, but forgot how I did it, and can't find a reference in the forums, so...

I have some 640x480 15 fps AVIs shot with the video function of a still digital camera. I want to intersperse them with DV shot with my mini DV video camera, and I am trying to render them to NTSC DV before dropping them on the timeline and editing with the rest of the video. However, when I do this, Vegas (4) doesn't letterbox the image but expands it sideways to fill the 720x480 NTSC spec, resulting in slightly squashed faces, ect. This seems to happen even if I leave the "stretch video to fill output frame size" box unchecked when I render. I tried cropping with pan/crop, but I'm doing something wrong there, since I'm not getting what I want, which is a 640x480 image padded with letterboxing on the side to a 720 width.

Thanks all,

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John_Cline wrote on 6/9/2004, 4:37 PM

It's the old rectangular vs. square pixel thing. DV is based on rectangular pixels, your still camera .AVI files are based on square pixels. If you're going to be watching this on a TV, then you really do want Vegas to stretch your 640x480 video to 720x480. When you watch the finished production on the TV, everything will look correct.

John