Video for internet

Per1 wrote on 6/24/2007, 3:36 AM

I'm trying to make a video for internet display that has an effective area of 600x120 pixels. How do I do that in Vegas?

I have 720x576 DV footage but cannot seem to set Vegas to a 600x120 project and complete fill that area with the footage.
I get a 600x120 preview but the movie is tiny in that frame.
Setting the project to 720x576 and taking a snapshot and input to Photoshop and there cropping to 600x120 shows a good image quality could be made in the 600x120 area, but trying to do that in Vegas just magnifies the footage to poor quality.

Anyone that have a easy procedure how to do this?

Regards

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Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2007, 3:41 AM

Set the project properties to 600x120. Probably choosing square pixels (pixel aspect ratio 1.0) will be a Very Good Idea at this point as well. Add the DV footage to the timeline. Open up Pan/Crop for that video clip. Right-mouse-button click in the cropping frame and choose "Match output aspect". You'll now have the video cropped to a thin band through the center of the frame. You can move the cropping rectangle up or down as necessary to choose which part of the frame to show.

There won't be any magnification happening so you shouldn't get poor quality. In fact, 600 is smaller than the original video frame so you'll be reducing the image slightly.

Per1 wrote on 6/24/2007, 4:17 AM

OK, this worked to some extent.

At 600x300 (15 fps) the image is good, going under 300 makes the image quality poor (moving "zebra stripes" at high contrast parts of the image). The size of the image in 250 or 200 px. height is the same as the 300 px version so there is no scaling made to the image. What can be wrong? One would think that cropping to a smaller area in an image would be perfect.

BTW, should it be 15 fps for internet in the project settings?