Hey, so umm..I am really confused and totally ignorant as to problems as specific as mines, which is about to become abundantly clear, so I apologize ahead of time. I shot something on a DVX in 24pa, 16x9 letterboxed and captured it with Vegas (someone else captured and I am not completely sure as to what settings he used, can figure out if it is necessary). I set the project as NTSC dv 24p, fullscreen, Pixel aspect ratio .9091. It says that is 720x480 (which, by my calculation is 3x2, not 4x3 or 16x9) and I want to get rid of the bars so that it outputs simply as 16x9. Here is where it gets really confusing, though. If I render it and open it up, then the final video is WIDER than 16x9, and the images are stretched out horizontally. I KNOW that it is not set at NTSC 24p widescreen, because I checked for this several times. If I watch it on my 16x9 monitor, then there are still black bars at the top and bottom, and this is not because the monitor stretches it (I tested it out on a 4x3 monitor and it was still wider than 16x9), but because Vegas is stretching it. Any advice? I am really confused. Even if there is no way to get rid of the letterboxing, I would still prefer a 4x3 picture that is not stretched and has bars to a 16x9 picture that IS stretched and STILL has bars! Thanks.
Help with aspect ratio stuff
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pastywhiteboy
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First of 4:3 takes into account the pixel aspect ratio as well. Ok, now for the answers:
1) set your project properties to 24p widescreen
2) right click on your clip(s) and select pan and crop dialogue, then set that to 16x9 on the presets
3) output to 24p widescreen
Simple as that.
Any more troubles, just post again!
-pastywhiteboy
1) set your project properties to 24p widescreen
2) right click on your clip(s) and select pan and crop dialogue, then set that to 16x9 on the presets
3) output to 24p widescreen
Simple as that.
Any more troubles, just post again!
-pastywhiteboy
pastywhiteboy
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Oh, forgot to mention - use the 2-3-3-2 pulldown preset on your render.
Also, letterboxed is actually 4:3 with black bars, so when you render to 16:9, you are actually stretching it horizontally without removing the black bars first... that's why your video was stretched.
Also, letterboxed is actually 4:3 with black bars, so when you render to 16:9, you are actually stretching it horizontally without removing the black bars first... that's why your video was stretched.
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
Future suggestion as well, don't shoot with the black bars. If you MUST have a guide while shooting, then get a screen overlay for your LCD. Otherwise, shoot normal 4:3, then do as pasty suggested in post. By shooting 4:3, you're not COMMITTED to framing ... if you were off a little, you've got some up/down forgiveness that you can adjust for, then render it out widescreen. Hope that makes sense.