Wide Screen Settings in Vegas???

belsokar wrote on 4/17/2003, 1:55 AM
Hi...I'm currently editing some video I shot in widescreen (16:9) mode on a vx2000...and I'm a bit confused about how to set my video properties...some questions:

For my main video project properties, will I set the 'Pixel Aspect Ratio' based on how I plan to render the video? Right now i'm previewing on a computer monitor, so I set the aspect ratio to Multimedia(1.0000) which seems to give the proper setting when viewed on a computer monitor. If my goal is to just render to a windows media file, is this the proper aspect ratio? If I plan to render as well for viewing on an NTSC set, do I then set the aspect ratio to NTSC DV (.9091) or NTSC DV Widescreen (1.2121)??? When previewing on a computer monitor, both of these look squished (either horizontal or vertical) but I understand that on a computer monitor this can probably be expected.

anyways, any help understanding these properties would help tremendously...thanks!

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pb wrote on 4/17/2003, 6:51 AM
You shouldn't have a squished image on your PC monitor, just your non-16:9 adjustable NTSC monitor. We switched to 16:9 for all new DVD projects done on the AVIDs and Vegas so your comment about "squishing" has me puzzled. The only things we do with DVCAM to Vegas 16:9 is set the project to Wide Screen (1.2121) in properties and set the preview monitor to 16:9 aspect ratio. I just bought a Canopus box for DVD/After Effects work so we'll see how well Vegas can work with the Canopus hardware codec. Maybe no more transferring BetaSX to DVCAM prior to editing!
belsokar wrote on 4/17/2003, 12:50 PM
Basically, my caputured avi file is from a 16:9 source. When I start a new project, and i have the option to set the pixel aspect ratio in the project's video properties,...if I use the multimedia setting, then the video looks fine when viewed on a computer monitor during preview mode...(no letterboxing, but what appears to be a proper 16x9 window) If I set the pixel aspect ratio to 'widescreen',...then the preview window stays the same size, but the video is now letterboxed, and looks squished vertically...if I set the pixel aspect ratio to 'ntsc dv',...then again, the preview window stays the same size, but the video now has letterboxing on the left and right hand sides, and is horizontally squished...does that make more sense?
SonyDennis wrote on 4/18/2003, 3:49 PM
Set the project properties pixel aspect ration to "1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)"

Right-click on the Video Preview and make sure "Simulate Device Aspect Ratio" is ON (it was called "Display Square Pixels" in Vegas 3).

Use the "NTSC DV Widescreen" template for rendering.

Your 16:9 anamorphic widescreen footage may have been auto-detected, but if not, in the media properties, set the PAR to widescreen.

If you have any 4:3 media, bring up pan/crop, right click in picture and "Match Output Aspect" to crop it to 16:9.

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