Loss of Frame Size

jayzee wrote on 7/10/2003, 9:42 AM

(Ref. 6/4/2003) Thanks Chienworks for explaining reason for loss of frame size going from VF to DV & VHS tape. As my projects use pictures, many with text, the first 1 or 2 letters are missing. What a disappointment!

Are there any setting to use in VF to 'shrink' the pictures so size on DV/VHS is 'correct'?

Thanks to all who contribute to this Forum. I learn a lot from it.
JZ

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Chienworks wrote on 7/10/2003, 9:57 AM

You can use the Pan/Crop tool to perform a "negative" crop. Drag the corners of the cropping frame out larger than the image. This will reduce the size of the image within the frame. If you have snapping on, then probably a couple of notches should be just about right. You will end up with a black border around the outside of the picture. This border probably won't be visible on a television, but it will be seen if anyone plays the rendered file on a computer.

I don't recall if VideoFactory has a "stretch to fill frame" checkbox in the Pan/Crop window. If it does, you should probably turn that off.

sdgates wrote on 7/10/2003, 5:01 PM

I just tried burning an MPEG-2 file to a CD per our previous conversation. I noticed that one of the windows that pops up during that process has a "stretch to fill frame" option box. (It was unchecked by default on my machine.)

By the way Kelly (is Kelly okay, or should I use Chein or Cheinworks?)...
when I went to play the CD back using Windows Media Player, no sound was coming through?!

Chienworks wrote on 7/10/2003, 7:34 PM

Well, Kelly is preferable to "Chein", but then, "Chien" would be preferable to "Chein" too ;)

That stretch option when rendering will stretch out the project frame size to fill the rendered frame size. It won't expand an image that doesn't fill the project frame out to fill the rendered frame. For example .... suppose your project is 320x240, it contains a picture that is shrunk to 240x180 in the middle, and you render it to 360x240. With that option unchecked, the video will still be 320x240 with an empty 20 pixel black bar on each side of the frame, and the picture will still be 240x180. If you do check that box then the video will stretch to 360x240 without the empty space on the sides, and the 240x180 image will stretch to 270x180, not 360x240. Make sense? Maybe?

As far as the MPEG file on CD, you might want to use MPEG-1 instead of MPEG-2 if you want more universal playback compatibility. Almost any computer can play MPEG-1 files. MPEG-2 requires special player software to be installed and not everyone has it. I don't think this is the cause of your sound problem though. Will have to ponder some more. Can you render just a few seconds of it and email that file to me? chien@chienworks.com

jayzee wrote on 7/10/2003, 8:15 PM

Thanks so much, Kelly. (Trust I got it right). You make it so easy. Do you give classes? I could use them.
JZ