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Chienworks wrote on 12/21/2005, 4:16 AM
Drop them all on the timeline and let Vegas sort 'em out.

Really, you don't need to concern yourself with the pixel aspect ratios. Vegas does all that for you. What you will have to worry about is that the PowerPoint clips won't fill the 16:9 screen so you'll either have to have empty areas on the sides or zoom in to fill the screen, or some combination part way inbetween. I might suggest having the PowerPoint slide up against one side of the frame and then showing a cropped version of the presenter in the empty area on the other side.
farss wrote on 12/21/2005, 5:34 AM
Just a thought, I've done quite a few of these things. I'd tend to keep the project at 4:3, much as I love 16:9.
Problem is anyone watching the show on a 4:3 set is going to find it even harder to view the PPTs once the 16:9 is letterboxed down to 4:3. Doing it 4;3 the video of the presenter is going to have black bars top and bottom but so what, no one needs to look that closely at him.
Bob.
gdstaples wrote on 12/21/2005, 7:09 AM
I shoot all HDV so it needs to remain 16:9.

Question:

How to I export 16:9 in Quicktime format from Vegas? There are no options in the templates and there are no 1.77 aspect ratios, only .9, 1, 1.2x, 1.4x.

I want to export my 1.33 aspect ratio HDV footage to 16:9 Quicktime file.

Also, why is QT (sorensen) soo much better than ether MPG2 or AVI? With QT I get no aliasing (movement/jittering) of graphics or text, with AVI or MPG2 I am getting jittering (even with progressive).

Is there an AVI or MPG tutorial somewhere on getting the most out of either of these formats?

Any help would be appreciated,
Duncan