Image cutoff in nonstd Vegas frame - help?

ken c wrote on 6/3/2005, 10:35 AM
Hi - hoping one of you Vegas pros can help with this:

I'm importing a 720x480 avi into a Vegas 4 timeline with a nonstandard video size project which is 720 x 250

and it seems to always cut off the input video clip, and won't let me add titles outside of the middle 4:3 area of the box...

here's a screencap of the video preview window:

http://www.Sitefomercials.com/imagecutoff.jpg

here's the project properties:

http://www.Sitefomercials.com/projectproperties.jpg


Any ideas how I can get input avi media, or generated text media, to show up in the left and right areas of the stage, eg beyond the middle part of this?

thanks for any help --

ken

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/3/2005, 11:03 AM
Try using Pan/Crop on the .avi file and set Match Output Aspect. This will fit the file into the frame shape. You may then have to drag the crop border back out to retain the original image size.
ken c wrote on 6/3/2005, 11:40 AM
Thanks ...! Hmm I'm rendering the source input clips, from Ultra2, in 720x480.. do you think if I rendered the source in the same aspect size it would work better, eg 720x250?

ken
Chienworks wrote on 6/3/2005, 11:45 AM
Yes.

You'll want to create your generated media events at that size too. Vegas should be doing this automatically after you set the project properties.
ken c wrote on 6/3/2005, 12:43 PM
Hi - hey thanks so much for your help -- you saved the day!

I couldn't do a custom output format, but by Unchecking the "Maintain aspect ratio" in event pan/crop in Vegas, then uncheck the "Lock aspect ratio", that fixed it.

I owe you big time Chienworks... you saved the project.

Let me know whatever I can do to repay your kindness... thanks very much! I mean it. I'll send business your way or whatever ... contact me ken at daytradinguniversity.com ... huge thanks.

People like you, DSE and the others that help on this forum, are priceless. And what goes around comes around... I'll do what I can to help repay your help. Consider that you've got "a marker" from me... you helped me, I'll remember.

ken
WedVidMan wrote on 6/3/2005, 1:14 PM
I'm going through the same problem.. My problem results from using an old Photsuite program (MGI PS ver4) -not real big on video file size compatibility. I went back to the manual to solve my problems. Not that it might apply for your applications, but I found in my search that the correct size for me was not 720x480, but 655x480. This size takes into consideration the DV pixel aspect ratio correction.
720 x .9091 (DV pixel aspect ratio) = 655 pixel width. See Chapter 13, page 220.