Vegas and Standard TV format

psb wrote on 10/3/2007, 3:08 PM
Hi,

I am trying to create my videos in the standard TV format (4:3) to be view on a big portable projector screen (84" in diameter and 4:3 aspect ratio). This is for multimedia project.

So far all the films rendered by Vegas 6 (the version I own) look great EXCEPT it looks like after rendering the original images are being presented kind of partially. It looks like Vegas has "zoomed in" into the origianal footage (video event or picture) and cut off the edges of it.

I figured that if I would be able to fit the entire image within the Safe Area then I might have a chance to have a success of seeing on the screen the entire image and not just center part of it.

Is there any way to "squeeze in" the original image into the Safe Area? I know that Safe Area (Preview Window) helps a lot to see where we are going as far as editing the movie but for some reason it doesn't serve me too good.

So, if anybody would have any idea how to render the project in Standard TV aspect ratio (4:3) without loosing any footage (edges of the viewing image) then please share the knowledge. I would truly appreciate it.

Many thanks,

PSB

Comments

farss wrote on 10/3/2007, 3:23 PM
You can use event or track pan/crop to do this.
Just be aware that on other devices the video might be seen with a black border.

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/3/2007, 6:39 PM
sounds more like a projector issue to me. I've use my own videos, computer & Wii on projectors many times.
Chienworks wrote on 10/3/2007, 6:51 PM
It does seem a tad odd. We've used 6 different LCD projectors at my church and ALL of them have shown the full frame. None of them crop overscan.