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Guy Bruner wrote on 2/17/2004, 3:12 PM
When you bring raw widescreen clips onto the timeline to edit them, open File/Properties and set the Pixel Aspect Ratio to "1.2121 (DV Widescreen)". This sets your project up the way it was shot. When you render as, click the Custom button next to Template and then select the Video tab. On the Video tab, select 16:9 in the Aspect Ratio dropdown box. When you bring this rendered file into DVDA, it will automatically set it up correctly.
PainterPaul wrote on 2/17/2004, 5:18 PM
Thank you very much, I really appreciate this!
Haw1144 wrote on 2/18/2004, 9:57 AM
actually you dont have to set it to 16:9. the way i've experienced it, if i record in widescreen (sony pc-105.. same as the trv-33 i believe just different case), and import it to vegas... rendering it out as 4:3 keeps the original 16:9 widescreen you recorded in.

but if you import the original 16:9 footage and render it out as 16:9, you end up getting a 16x9 of the 16x9... so the footage kinda looks like the 2.35:1 ratio instead of the original 16:9 ratio.
Guy Bruner wrote on 2/18/2004, 3:19 PM
Hmmm, I haven't seen that on my DVD widescreen clips. I know that it is possible to get 2.35:1 by using an anamorphic adapter and DV widescreen. Are you sure you didn't select 2.21:1 as the output aspect ratio?
Haw1144 wrote on 2/19/2004, 3:58 PM
yeah i'm pretty sure. if the original footage was in 16:9, i render out as 4:3, and it keeps the original 16:9 ratio.
and if i render out in 16:9, it creates more of a "letterbox" (more rectangular) version

not sure if that's the way it's supposed to work, but as long as i keep everything 4:3, my 16:9 footage remains the same ratio as the film displayed from the DV tape



Guy Bruner wrote on 2/19/2004, 4:50 PM
Unless you have a native 16:9 cam (very expensive), you are shooting in DV Widescreen which is an anamorphicly squeezed (stretched tall) 16:9 picture placed in a 4:3 box (it is still 720x480, though). If viewed directly from the tape, it will look abnormally tall on a standard 4:3 TV and also on a 16:9 TV unless you use the TV horizontal "stretch" mode. If you bring it into Vegas as 4:3 and render it out as 4:3, you haven't changed the aspect ratio from what was recorded on tape. It should still look stretched vertically when displayed on a TV unless you stretch it horizontally with the TV's format mode. Go here to see examples of 4:3 and 16:9 video I have made with Vegas.