MPG rendered using Architect template cropped

jamesfrankham wrote on 2/19/2007, 8:58 PM

Hi all you architects.

I've exported two mpegs from Vegas - one using the 'DVD Architect PAL Widescreen Video Stream' as the software advises, and the other using DVD PAL. The first video file looks cropped by about 10 pixels in Architect, the second is fine. Both are rendered to 720px wide and opened in a 720 Architect project.

I would rather use the settings as advised but they don't work. Any ideas why?

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jamesfrankham wrote on 2/19/2007, 9:17 PM

... actually I've discovered that both templates yield narrow black bars on the sides. the only way to get rid of the is to select 'Stretch Video to Output Frame size' in the 'render as' dialog.

It was shot at 1080/50i PAL HDV so should have ample resolution - why does it turn up cropped in DVD Architect??

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/20/2007, 6:04 AM

i don't 100% know cuz I use NTSC, but I'm betting the scale between the two resolutions is slightly different & that's why you could black bars.

But with NTSC DV I get slight black bars at the sides too, so that may be normal if thye are only a few pixels wide.

MPM wrote on 2/24/2007, 11:14 AM

FWIW Vegas has the habit of trying to help you out by making assumptions on the PAR, maintaining the aspect, showing the preview at device aspect etc. That & the do-not-letterbox check in the render-as window can lead to pillar boxing -- the only way to catch it AFAIK is to watch the preview during render, keeping the preview window large enough during a brief test to actually spot it.

The surest way I'm aware of to avoid this unnecessary surprise is to turn off maintain aspect for each clip on the timeline -- with SD I also turn everything to a PAR of 1:1. That way I'm the only one responsible for keeping track of the sizes.