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bStro wrote on 11/26/2008, 10:52 AM
Why would his choice in storage medium add a "blue frame" to the video? Can you post a screen cap?

Assuming this thing is actually embedded in the video, you can use the Pan / Crop tool, though you're going to loose a bit of quality since Vegas has to scale the video up to fill the frame.

Rob
rs170a wrote on 11/26/2008, 11:02 AM
You could try using the Border FX to apply a black border of the appropriate width around the video.

Mike
FlashGordon wrote on 11/26/2008, 11:20 AM
It wasn't the storage medium, it was the setting on the TRV-18 camera. If he had set it to "camera" it would have gone to the Mini-DV tape but instead set it to "memory" so it went to the memory stick. Thanks to your suggestion I found the crop tool and did that and of course I lost quality in the video but I sure appreciate your response. Cheers!!
bStro wrote on 11/26/2008, 11:31 AM
That is exactly what I mean by storage medium. Either the video was stored to memory stick or it was recorded directly to tape. And my befuddlement remains -- why does recording to memory stick add a "blue frame"?

Is it possible that he used an in-camera effect? If that's the case, it would be there whether he recorded to memory stick or tape.

Rob
John_Cline wrote on 11/26/2008, 11:43 AM
Unfortunately, when recording to the Memory Stick, the TRV-18 records relatively low bitrate MPEG video in either 160x120 or 320x240 resolution. This is nowhere near the 720x480 resolution when recording in the DV mode. It is also much more compressed and will therefore have more artifacts. There is no way that the footage from the other night is going to match whatever else you have shot. It was a major screwup on his part.