Problems changing settings on existing project

ario118 wrote on 12/14/2018, 1:30 AM

Hi, people.

I'm kinda new with Vegas and currently using Vegas Pro 15.

Here's a problem I'm encountering that I hope you guys can help with: I made a series of png still images into a logo animation that was supposed to be put on the upper left corner of the screen. The image size was 312 x 178 pixels, so I made the project to be that size, adding in some effects and rendered it into a .mov file with alpha channel. I used the .mov file, also in Vegas Pro 15 and my friends used it in Adobe Premiere and other stuff for non-editing purposes and it worked fine.

However, I realized later on that the screen size was not good for a new project I was doing (also in Vegas Pro 15). So I tried to revise the original logo animation project to change the screen size into 720 x 576, expecting the image would stay in size so I could move it to the upper left corner. Here's what I did:

I opened the original project
Went to "Properties"
Changed the "width" and "height"
Chose "Disable resample"
Unticked the "Adjust source media to better match project or render settings"
Clicked OK

And lo and behold: the image size was automatically changed to fill the new 720 x 576 screen, blurred and all. What did I miss? What did I do wrong?

Please be aware that English is not my mother tongue, although I thought I wasn't bad at it. Maybe it's the technical terms that escaped me. You know, I don't really get the "deinterlace," "blend fields," "resample" terms to an exact understanding of what they are. Educated guessing is something I do a lot. LOL!

Please help. Thanks a lot.

Comments

klt wrote on 12/14/2018, 2:14 AM

If your content fills the screen, it will also when you change the resolution. It's just like resize image in Photoshop, however based on your description I guess you expected something like to change canvas size in that analogy.

Disable resample disables resampling, but that's something in the time, not the graphics resolution.

The "adjust source media" helps to fill the screen better in regards of different aspect ratios.

What you would need now probably is to resize the content to it's intended size in the new project.

If it's on one track only, just use track motion. If it's made up using more tracks, make all of those tracks a compositing child of a new empty parent track, and apply parent motion to that parent track.

ario118 wrote on 12/14/2018, 2:23 AM

Yessss, exactly, change canvas size.

So I do need to resize the content, in this case the still images, manually? Wouldn't that make the images blurred, then resized back to their original size into even more blurry images? LOL.

However, track motion, I haven't used that within my learning curves so far, so I'll have to look into it. I'll try it and get back to you. Thanks a million, klt.

klt wrote on 12/14/2018, 2:30 AM

You're welcome.

It got blurry for you because you made it appear bigger than it's real size. By using track motion you just make it appear smaller, if you make it the same size as the graphics actual size, there will be no blurryness.

When you make the track motion properties, beware of keyframes. You probably want the logo in a steady position on the screen, not moving across, or slowly growing, shrinking, etc...

😉

Update: I just realized it's about Vegas 15. So you could use PIP FX too.