New Project Settings

kdi001 wrote on 1/14/2010, 7:34 AM

Newbie to shooting in 30p so here's my question:

I shot 30p (widescreen) footage with my Canon HV30, and the eventual footage will be put on a regular DVD for standard viewing. In Vegas, before beginning to edit the captured footage, should I keep the settings on the default or change it to NTSC DV Widescreen;

sorry for a very basic question, but in the Vegas New Project template choices, there are so many options, I just want to make sure I select the proper settings.

Dale, in Pennsylvania

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musicvid10 wrote on 1/14/2010, 7:40 AM

Neither. Change your Project Settings to match your media.
To do this, right click on the yellow folder icon in the top right-hand corner of the Project Properties dialog and select one of your media files.

kdi001 wrote on 1/14/2010, 7:47 AM

Thanks.

Should I be seeing the black bars at the top and bottom of the Vegas preview window, since I shot in 16x9 widescreen?

Or is widescreen something I select when rendering?

musicvid10 wrote on 1/14/2010, 8:35 AM

If you match the project properties to your media as above, you will not see black bars in the preview unless you have mixed media types.

kdi001 wrote on 1/15/2010, 4:01 AM

Another issue, ugh.

I have scene detection checked.

After my capturing is completed and I playback the scenes. . . . the first scene I captured has a standard 4x3 aspect ratio, but the second and successive scenes are all in 16x9 or widescreen mode.

What in the world am I doing wrong that the first captured scene wouldn't also be widescreen mode like all the others? Keep in mind, i shot all my footage in widescreen, but for whatever reason the first scene of each capture is showing 4x3 non-widescreen.

rs170a wrote on 1/15/2010, 6:50 AM

What in the world am I doing wrong that the first captured scene wouldn't also be widescreen mode like all the others?

How are you capturing it?
If you're using the "Capture Entire Tape" option, that may be your problem.
A number of users have discovered that if they don't have at least 5 sec. of clean stable video prior to the beginning of the very first scene, this can mess up VidCap in strange ways.

Mike

Chienworks wrote on 1/15/2010, 7:53 AM

Right-mouse-button click on the 4:3 clip on the timeline and choose properties. Under media change the pixel aspect ratio to widescreen. That will make it match the rest of the clips.