How to export in Vegas 4:3; 16:9 or 16:9 Anamorph?

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etrust

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Hi,

i would like to know where to choose following render options in vegas:

4:3
16:9
16:9 anamorph

I would like to render my footage to PAL 4:3; PAL 16:9; and PAL 16:9 anamorph

Can somebody help? I can not see a possibility to set this option under rendering options

Original Footage: 1920x1080
Vegas Version: Pro 9.0 c
OS: Win 7 64 bit
 
If you're exporting to PAL, whether for DVD or to tape, you have two choices -- standard or widescreen.

Standard is 4:3. Widescreen is 16:9, and it's anamorphic. Either way, it's 720x576.
 
hi, thank you!

and 16:9 not anamorph?Is that possible?

Is Square Pixel the same as Widescreen? Under rendering options for .mov i can see only pal default or pal square pixel.
 
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Yes, but it wouldn't actually be PAL and you can't do it with DV or for DVD. You'd have to do it in some other codec or format (or uncompressed AVI, but that's a very large file size). Pixel dimensions equivalent to full-resolution PAL are 1024x576, with a square pixel (1.000).
 
DV and DVD frame sizes do not use square pixels, neither for 4:3 nor for 16:9.

"Anamorphic" has no sense in regards to widescreen DV/DVD, because digital video has no native aspect ratio like film stock has. It is just a matrix of pixels x pixels wide and y pixels high, and depending on frame aspect ratio these pixels can be narrower or wider.

Depending on your output frame rate aspect ratio and frame size in pixels you can easily calcualate pixel aspect ratio yourself.
 
"Anamorphic" is anything which is recorded/encoded etc. in one shape and meant to be stretched out or squeezed into another. Why is called that? Because it changes shape.

A Cinemascope 2:1 anamorphic lens is used to shoot wide-aspect movies onto 4:3 35mm film. Viewed raw, the footage is horizontally compressed, just like widescreen DVDs or widescreen DVD would be if you viewed them native on a 4:3 TV without letterboxing it.

Widescreen DVDs are referred to as "anamorphic." The exact same principle (and frame dimensions/pixel aspect ratios) are at play in DV, too. The standard aspect ratio for DV is 4:3. Widescreen is carried as within the NTSC or PAL standard (4:3) with a flag to stretch it out. Hence, it's "anamorphic."

In a purely mathematical sense, no, digital video has no inherent shape, but the parlance -- and what etrust was asking about -- is to call it anamorphic.
 
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