Ultimate S widescreen and interlacing

Laurence wrote on 3/11/2005, 2:08 PM
OK let's say you've just used the Ultimate S on some 4:3 footage to make it widescreen. Now in some of the clips the action is above or below the new center, so you slide the widescreen "window" up or down on a number of the clips to better center the action. About half the time you end up screwing up the interlacing because you start on an even line instead of an odd one and it looks horrible on a TV. How do you best get around this? What I want to do is move the widescreen window up or down on a bunch of clips without messing up the interlacing. Can I lock the widescreen window to even or odd lines so that it always comes out right? Is there a script I can run to correct clips where the interlace pattern got reversed? There must be some easy way to do this!

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/11/2005, 5:58 PM
Other than looking at the project at Best/Full, zooming in deep in the Pan/Crop, I'm unaware of how you might better do this. The scripting functions of Ultimate don't access actual frame information, so there is no way for Ultimate S to know if it's on an even field or an odd field since Vegas doesn't tell it where it is. In other words, it doesn't matter if you do this with Ultimate S or with the Pan/Crop tool, the results would be the same in terms of moving the target up or down.