Letterbox rendering problems

Bill S wrote on 11/14/2005, 9:59 AM

I'm trying to render an entire 70 minute widescreen video in letterbox format for family members with 4:3 TVs. Almost all of the video renders perfectly, but when a jpg image or titling appear, the video goes to full screen "squeezed" format. Suggestions?

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fadfastfred wrote on 11/14/2005, 9:58 PM

Bill you will need to save any still images you use in .png format.
known as "portable graphics network." For more info this, go to your
documentation file, it's a PDF file. Click on "index" and scroll down to
"Still Images."
Good Luck

fadfastfred wrote on 11/14/2005, 10:24 PM

Some additional info Bill: Slight error......png files represent
Portable Network Graphics.
Your Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 PDF documentation file....open the
file and go to chapter 13, "USING ADVANCED VIDEO FEATURES,
page 226. This will give you all the info you will need.
Good Luck,
fadfastfred

Bill S wrote on 11/15/2005, 5:32 AM

Thanks. The still images were in jpg format. I solved the problem by going to each event that involved graphics and manually set the format to widescreen. The other cause may have been my originally rendering the movie file in mpg2 in movie studio. Second time around I rendered it to avi in movie studio, then let dvdas recompress it all. This time, success and with better quality audio as well. Thanks for the input.

fadfastfred wrote on 11/15/2005, 8:20 AM

Bill: Glad you got it working the way you wanted it.
I notice in the documentation that Vegas specifys .png because it
saves the file with an alpha channel, which is useful for keyframes and
in particular overlays.
Have fun!
fadfastfred