Widescreen Video

mterrien wrote on 7/1/2009, 5:13 PM
I am trying to move from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen formats in my movie making. But I am having a lot of problems fitting timeline clips to the widescreen format frame. I have a Canon GL1 that shoots in 16:9 but I can't make it fit the frame. If I let Vegas 9 do it, it stretches the clip in both directions to fit. On a 4:3 clip it streches okay, but 16:9 ends up distorted. I thought without the stretch it would fit the full frame. But it ends up using about have the frame. It doesn't even make it outside the safe areas. I also thought that setting the Vegas project properties to 16:9 widescreen would make all the clips fit 16:9. But each each clip on the timeline needs to be set to widescreen and that doesn't make any sense. What's the project properties for if it doesn't do anything. Does anyone have any suggestions on sources of info maybe by book or internet that could point me in the right direction? If I had a source of knowledge for using Vegas 9 in this way I might be a little more successful. The Vegas 9 manual doesn't give me much.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/1/2009, 5:37 PM
if you're shooting in DV then choose the widescreen settings. If you're shooting HD then it's all widescreen.

should be automatic after that. could it be you're not taking widescreen but are taping letterbox?
farss wrote on 7/1/2009, 5:42 PM
Sounds like the problem is the video from the camera is either not flagged 16:9 or Vegas is not reading the flag correctly. Either way the only way to fix it is to change the clips properties.
Much easier to do this in the Project Media than on the T/L.

Bob.
mterrien wrote on 7/6/2009, 7:41 AM
The problem was that the video wasn't flagged as 16:9. Once I changed the clip properties in Vegas it works fine. Thanks for all the comments.

Mike