Saving Vegas Pro 22 snapshot distorts the image

James-Snead wrote on 3/8/2025, 10:07 AM

I imported a 1920 x 1080 commercial video. Set the project to match. Verified this. Placed the video on the timeline. Picked a location on the timeline in the video. Set preview quality to best, full. Selected the icon to save a snapshot. When saved, the image becomes 2048 x 1080, distorting the image. Same thing happens in Vegas Pro 20. Also, it appears that the preview window is distorted as well. I cannot get it to remain proportional to 1920 x 1080 even though it says both the project and preview are set to 1920 x 1080 x 32.

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Gid wrote on 3/8/2025, 10:45 AM

@James-Snead Hi, what are the project settings, Pixel aspect ratio? Can you share a picture of that?

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James-Snead wrote on 3/8/2025, 2:51 PM

The issue may be that the original video does not use a square pixel. I expected that this would not show in the video preview window or the snapshot. I wonder if there is another program setting that I need to change?

James-Snead wrote on 3/8/2025, 3:40 PM

I have found that I can make each separate video's pixel square in the properties. That solves my immediate issue. Perhaps, there is a global import command to do this?

john_dennis wrote on 3/8/2025, 4:29 PM

@James-Snead After you correct the pixel aspect ratio of one event on the timeline you can copy and paste the Event Attributes to any or all of the other events on the timeline.

zzzzzz9125 wrote on 3/9/2025, 12:13 AM

After you correct the pixel aspect ratio of one event on the timeline you can copy and paste the Event Attributes to any or all of the other events on the timeline.

@john_dennis This should be wrong. Pasting event properties does NOT change the properties of any source media.

I have found that I can make each separate video's pixel square in the properties. That solves my immediate issue. Perhaps, there is a global import command to do this?

@James-Snead The correct way is simply to multiple select your media files in "Project Media" window and select "Properties" from the context menu. For media files, you can select multiple to quickly change their properties. But for events, you can only use "(Selectively) Paste Event Properties".

john_dennis wrote on 3/9/2025, 11:14 AM

@zzzzzz9125 You are correct that only Event Attributes can be changed on the timeline using Copy, then Paste Event Attributes or Selectively Paste Event Attributes. In fact, the Properties option is greyed out when multiple events are selected on the timeline.

While the Properties option is available when multiple media files are selected in Project Media. (I just had a flashback to the Media Pool in CD Architect.)

Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I'm going to go drink more coffee now. I should have done that yesterday.

@James-Snead