Hi, just wondering why vegas caps at 4096x2304. What if one wants to import 4.6k footage or higher to pan and scan or crop. Will sony be providing a patch for this?
I've asked this in a support ticket.... we all should submit this request. Cattlelist is 4 years behind Vegas so we'll need Vegas patches to keep up with the ever changing camera file landscape.
You can import larger media. The restriction is on the output size. I've often loaded 16K and 32K images on the timeline for pan/scan with no trouble at all.
The limit used to be 1024x1024, and it was raised to 2048x2048 around the same time that HD started becoming known. It was then raised to 4096x4096 about the time the forums started talking about 4K, in fact a year or two before anyone could buy a 4K camera. I'm sure Vegas 14 will be 8192x8192 or better.
Where are you showing this content? The typical cinema projector is only 4096x2160. Any aspect ratios beyond that require an anamorphic lens, but the resolution is still 2160P.
Even consumer 4k displays are less than 2160p in both resolution and color depth.
The 4096 cap might be more relevant once 8K cinema and 8K rec2020 displays become more widespread. A 5K PC display is not necessarily a standard in terms of video. Most of the cinema cameras that shoot higher than 2160p are designed to allow for scaling or cropping to 2160p. Shooting a medium shot, then cropping to a close-up with no resolution loss, reframing in post, or capturing wide aspects in full 2160p resolution.
Showing the content doesn't matter at this stage. I have completely other reasons for wanting to render at 8k. and that stupid adobe program already does 8k. :(
You answered this best. I guess the imported file if over 4K constrains to the capped resolution but the extra pixels are there to crop. That's exactly what I needed. I guess I figured Vegas what show the actual resolution in the preview window of the file dimensions when above 4096x4096
Thanks for the info. It is for a 4K DCP. I was thrown off when Vegas didn't show the dimensions above 4096x4096 in the preview window but it doesn't matter now knowing that the extra pixels available for cropping are shown in the pan crop window