Video Event Pan/Crop has incorrect aspect ration

TheFork wrote on 9/26/2008, 4:18 AM
Hi,

I'm using Vegas Pro 8.1 on Vista 64-bit.

I have shot footage with my Sony HDR-SR8 camcorder, and it shows up in the Vegas Explorer as 1440x1080x12, 25fps, interlaced.

I've created a new project using the template HDV 1080-50i which appears to be the closest match. Both the timeline and the preview window (top left) in Vegas shows the video with the correct aspect ratio (16:9 widescreen).

However, if I select the video in the timeline and go to Tools -> Video -> Video Event Pan/Crop then this window "shrinks" the video to a 4:3 aspect ratio so that it looks squashed, and it has two vertical black borders at the left and right (like a vertical letterbox crop).

Can anyone suggest what I might be missing here?

Thanks for any help,

Richard (TheFork).

Comments

farss wrote on 9/26/2008, 4:45 AM
R Click in the Pan/Crop window and select Match Output Aspect Ratio.
Bob.
blink3times wrote on 9/26/2008, 5:28 AM
Interesting.

It appears to be a bug. I get normal 16:9 view with HC3 footage, but the CanonHV20 comes up as 4:3 (Selecting "match Output" has no effect). I can get it to show as 16:9 in the preview, but it still look 4:3 with the black bars on the side in the pan/crop window. For all intents and purposes it's ACTING as a normal 16:9 but it's SHOWING (in the P/C window) as 4:3

I would file a bug report.
TheFork wrote on 9/26/2008, 5:58 AM
Bob - thank you, I have just tried that but alas it's had no affect. Thanks for your suggestion.
TheFork wrote on 9/26/2008, 5:58 AM
Blink3times - thanks for confirming the bug, I shall file a bug report accordingly.
rs170a wrote on 9/26/2008, 6:15 AM
Richard, see if this works for you.
After loading in the files, open the Properties box (File - Properties), click the "Match Media Settings" icon (looks like a folder icon), browse to the folder where the files came from, click one of them and then click "Open".
Project Properties should now match whatever format the original files are.

Mike
TheFork wrote on 9/27/2008, 8:58 AM
Mike - thanks for the tip, I'll use that when importing files from the Explorer from now on (although all of my files will be of this type since I only have the one camera).

Unfortunately this hasn't fixed the 4:3 aspect ratio problem, and I filed a bug report with Sony Tech Support. They suggested te same "Match Output Aspect" and "Match Source Aspect" mentioned above, but this hasn't helped so I've reported this to them and am awaiting their response again.

Richard.
blink3times wrote on 9/27/2008, 9:08 AM
Point them to this thread and let them know that the issue has been reproduced by a different user. I can reproduce it with my HV20... but NOT with my HC3, which is quite interesting.... I think anyway.
xstr8guy@sbcglobal.net wrote on 9/29/2008, 7:17 PM
Yep, having the same problem here. Disappointing. 8.0c doesn't have this bug.
Jaydub wrote on 11/18/2008, 1:20 PM
I am experiencing the same exact problem! So does that mean the video I am rendering is actually 16x9 but just showing up as 4x3 in the Event/Pan crop screen?
darg wrote on 1/6/2009, 7:48 PM
Is here any update available in regard to this bug? My material is from HV10 AND HV20 and both show up as 4:3. The next thing is, that after a while the pan/crop window is not showing the actual picture of a frame but just a grey area.
Vegas 8.0 on the same machine with the same material is not doing this.

Thanks

Axel
Aje wrote on 1/7/2009, 5:40 AM
Same here HV20 material (PAL) goes 4:3 on Vegas 8.1
No problem with 8.0c both on Vista 64.
I´ve skipped Vegas 8.1 until this and other
bugs are fixed.
Aje
darg wrote on 1/7/2009, 10:18 AM
But it is just the thumbnail in the pan/crop window that's of. When you move the pan/crop it has the right aspect ratio. The big issue is when the pan/crop is going grey, than nothing is working anymore.
I have encountered several issues with 8.1. Sometimes the secondary monitor was not working or 8.1 declared clips as defect where 8.0b was working fine with it. The only thing that helped was reinstalling Vegas 8.1 and than it worked for while but I'm not sure if this is maybe burning my license over time.
Also the preview on my secondary under Vista is more jagged and with artefacts than under Windows XP but that's maybe something in regard to the graphics driver.

Axel