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Marco. wrote on 8/27/2005, 9:36 AM
Yes, we had same problem once. Solution is to take care of using best fitting render resolution.

Marco
Jeff Waters wrote on 8/27/2005, 9:56 AM
Thanks Marco... I'm not following... could you elaborate?
Jeff
Marco. wrote on 8/27/2005, 10:05 AM
I can only speak for PAL conditions:

Say I have a PAL dv video in the Vegas timeline and I want to render to WMV now.

WMV only offers square or HDV (1.333) pixel aspect ratio. There is no dv aspect ratio available in the WMV render dialog.

So now you have to correct your picture aspect ratio by selecting the proper image size rather then using a dv pixel aspect ratio.

Say I want to render my PAL dv video to exact same size to WMV and I would not accept any missalignment in compositings or text or whatever. What I have to set the image size to is 787x576. Alignment fits now.

NTSC probably has same problems but the render value for the image size will differ of course. Could be 655x480 for NTSC, not sure about it.

Any smaller size relative to the ones mentioned above.

Marco
ForumAdmin wrote on 8/28/2005, 7:35 PM
> WMV only offers square or HDV (1.333) pixel aspect ratio. There is no dv aspect ratio available in the WMV render dialog.

Yes, you can set your own aspect ratio for WMV. In Custom, click on the pixel aspect ratio value and type in the number you want. Then save this template, after giving it a new name and description, by clicking on the Save icon (looks like a floppy disk).
Marco. wrote on 8/28/2005, 11:57 PM
Thanks for this info. Then adjusting the render dialog to dv pixel aspect ratio could help too.

Marco
B_JM wrote on 8/29/2005, 7:24 AM
please note that WMV should be square pixels only - as Windows Media Player does not handle non square PAR correctly all the time ...

if you use a good media player instead - it is not a problem ..