shooting in portrait mode and having trouble orienting background

Laurie-Sanii wrote on 4/13/2021, 6:45 PM

I am making a video with 4 different video cuts, against 3 different backgrounds, shot in portrait mode.

 

For each of these, I changed the orientation of the subject and the size to place them where I wanted relative to the background.

 

When I view the preview video before I render, it looks great (screencaps from 3 of the cuts):

 

But when I render the video, I can see that the background and foregrounds are no longer oriented correctly:

I'm running Windows 10, on MSI GP76 Leopard, Vegas Pro 17.0 Platinum, 32.0 MB RAM, NVIDIA

 

Thank you in advance-
Laurie

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NOVAdash wrote on 4/13/2021, 9:44 PM

There is probably a better answer, but what you're seeing as a render should be what you're seeing in the Preview Window. Since MS 16 (which is what I'm using now) the Preview seems to show what you'd think, instead of how the rendering engine interprets your project. My experience with previous versions would slice off the edges in Video Preview.

The problem is that your background image and your video are two different aspect ratios. I'm not sure why Movie Studio can't work with mismatched aspect ratios, but it's been the case in the way I've edited videos since Movie Studio 9. What I've done in the past is to overlay the non-compliant image onto a transparent canvas that has the same aspect ratio as the project, but 2x+ larger (using photo editing software), and use Pan/Crop to fit it into the frame properly.

Laurie-Sanii wrote on 4/13/2021, 10:28 PM

Thank you! That's what I was just thinking after I posted it! More experimentation tmrw!

Laurie-Sanii wrote on 4/13/2021, 11:50 PM

Anyone else notice this, effective tonight? When I try to open mp4's created yesterday to edit I can, but anything tonight I filmed as mp4 format it says I need a codec and doesn't recognize file type. Have to convert to mov.