You want to set your project settings to DV. Bring your HDV clip to the timeline. Open the Event/Pan crop of the clip. Right click on the image in the event/pan window and click "Match Aspect Ratio". Now you can move around using the event pan tools.

Regards, Marc

My workflow for HDV to SD projects

Don't know what you mean by not wanting it to re-sample. I probably am not understanding what you mean, because it seems to me that anything converted from HDV to SD must be resampled, whether you pan/crop or not.

Also be sure that "blend" or "interpolate" are set for the deinterlacing in the project properties. Even if you are going HD interlaced to SD interlaced, it needs this before it does the scaling.

What I mean by resampling is that I just want to use a portion of the HDV in SD. I do not want to resample the hd to sd. Just use the portion that I specify in track motion (or) pan/crop (don't know which on to use)

only thing to watch out for is that if you pan/crop in more the SD res it'll start to look pixelated. I'd add a slight blur just so the extra detail doesn't look weird (TO detailed)

Do NOT use track motion. You MUST use pan/crop.

OK. This does not seem, to be working. The HD \footage is getting stretched (causing pixelation). Here is what I am going. I have a widescreen Sd project with ONE HD camera on a wide of an event.
I have used multicam to switch between cameras (excalibur). I click on the event pan/crop of the hd footage that I want to frame, I type in 720 (was 1440.0) in the width in the position field. The picture just gets cropped unless stretch to fill frame option is on (and that is where the pixelation is coming into play.) I sure hope that I am missing something.

Did you read the link in my original post above? It definitely will NOT stretch your footage. As to pixelization, that has me stumped. If you use track motion, you WILL get pixelization, but in my previous post I mentioned that you HAVE to use pan/crop, so I assume you are doing that. So, assuming you followed the advice I gave, I am stumped.

Are you still using HDV intermediate? Is that the step that I am missing? Let me try to figure that intermediate thing out. I see that you were going crazy before you figured it out. I don't understand why you use a HD project (other than the up sampling of titles). It is a SD project and I do not undstand why we are upsampling anything.

I see the pixelation in the oreview window draft (auto). It gets a little better in Best, but should that be ll I exprect.


Here are some examples:
http://www.dvsolutions.tv/sd-hdv.jpg My preview screen
http://www.dvsulutions.tv/sd-hdv-pc.jpg my p/c window

"I type in 720 (was 1440.0) in the width in the position field. The picture just gets cropped unless stretch to fill frame option is on (and that is where the pixelation is coming into play.) I sure hope that I am missing something."

Do you have the "lock aspect ratio" box clicked? Its right above "size about center." in the event pan/crop box.

Then leave "maintain aspect ratio" and "stretch to fill frame" both to 'yes'

kairosmatt

Yes on both of these. But as you can see in the http://www.dvsolutions.tv/sd-hdv.jpg link in the previous post, the stretch to fill frame seems to pixelate. Can you send a pic of your hdv to sd preview window in draft (auto).

Putting the preview settings in draft definitely causing pixelation. Do you have this same issue when you render?

Well, while I can see your preview screen, the link to the screen showing your project properties is broken.

I just pointed my video camera at my screen to show you the project settings I use when editing HDV that will then be pan/cropped to SD, as per the "cookbook" I linked you to. I've put that into a WMV which you can download and play (I didn't want to use YouTube because I can't guarantee the resolution, and I haven't yet signed up for Vimeo). I used the DV mode on my FX1 to capture, and was only displaying Preview quality in the Vegas display, rather than Good or Best. It sure looks pretty good to me. You'll see a little herring bone pattern in the video which is caused by refresh speed on my LCD, I think.

If you can post the VEG file for your project, I'll take a quick look. I don't need your media, I'll just substitute my own. If you have a simple VEG (one without too many tracks, etc.) that exhibits the problem, that will make it easier for me to figure out. There is clearly some setting that has been set incorrectly.

As for intermediates, I sometimes make Cineform Intermediates, but for most of my simple projects, I just edit the native m2t files. If you are making intermediates and if you somehow have screwed that up, it could explain your problems. Also, the ultra-low resolution -- which is what you are seeing, rather than pixelization per se -- could be due to creating a proxy instead of an intermediate, and choosing some sort of really low 320x240 resolution. Nothing wrong with this as long as you substitute the original footage prior to rendering.

Here's the link:

WMV Video showing HDV to SD Cropping

and here's a screen grab of the Vegas preview Window showing my FX1 HDV footage cropped to SD (see bars on the side of the screen), displayed at Best resolution:

Screen Capture

Both links good for seven days.

[Edit] I missed that you are viewing in Draft resolution. Of course that will look like heck. Don't do that.

The links are fixed now.

www.dvsolutions.tv/sd-hdv.jpg My preview screen
www.dvsolutions.tv/sd-hdv-pc.jpg my p/c window

Why, in you opinion does the preview distort, there is NO zoomig in issue (due to the footage being 1080 and only using 720. Strange thing, why would stretch to fill need to be on? Vegas is not stretching anything. There are 1080 pixels in a 720 project, Vegas should not have to stretch anything, the data is there. Just like a 300 dpi scan vs a 72 dpi scan using 'Ken Burns', the problem doesn't exist there....or does it?

This link:

http://www.dvsulutions.tv/sd-hdv-pc.jpg

does not work for me.

Also, let me know if you want me to look at the VEG file. However, if you are using draft preview resolution, then that is your problem. It will not, however, affect the render: that will still be full resolution.