Widescreen settings for use with projector

TJIsACoolGuy

TJIsACoolGuy

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I am filming in Letterbox mode, and the stuff that isn't in filmed in letterbox I am just selecting 16:9 on the indivdual events. I am going to play this on a projector. I am wondering what settings I need to do to acheive this look when played on a projector. What I have been doing is using the standard 24p template (not widescreen) in vegas. And then on each clip I am selecting the event and making it 16:9. This seems to be what I want, because this makes a 4:3 image with 16:9 of actual usable footage in the center of the picture. This is what I would want when I play the video on a 4:3 screen. Correct? I am going to be playing probably off of a DVD or off a mini dv tape. What would everyone suggest? I know that I could choose the 16:9 widescreen template, but then I would be losing the 4:3 image and it wouldn't work with the screen I have, I need the black bars on the top and bottom. The other thing, is that when I save a picture from the preview window....(a still from a video clip), and I use it on my timeline, I can't select it like I can with video clips, and change the ratio to make it 16:9. So when I render out....unless I check the option to (not letterbox) than it looks funny when it switches to that picture, it jumps from being one depth, to another. For example, if you had video that you wanted to freeze on a certain frame for 5 seconds, and you save that still as a picture and put it in the timeline where you want it, it will jump from the video to the picture being zoomed out. Try it....So that's fine to fix it by checking that box, unless you are using the widescreen template, than you need to uncheck that box to have it be full widescreen and nothing else in the file. And when you uncheck the box, it messes it up. I wish there was a way to just click on the box on the picture event like you can do with any video clip and make it 16:9.

I don't know if this made any sense, but a simple explanation about how I should render out and project settings for use with a projector would be good. And an explanation as to all the different settings and when you render what that check box is for.

Thanks, I'm sure other people have wanted to know this too- because with all my past experiences with other NLE's, I've never seen anything this confusing for a render out.
 
Re: Widescreen settings for use with projector

That method should work fine for you, but I'd suggest cropping ALL of the clips, even the ones you shot in letterbox. Why? You have the black bars, but try adding some effects to the clip -- it affects the black bars, too, when you probably don't want that. Rendering out as a DV project should be fine for your projector and for your DVD.

You should be able to crop a still photo just like you would any other clip, especially if it's a screen grab.
 
Re: Widescreen settings for use with projector

Yes, that's what i've been doing, I have gone through and cropped every clip to 16:9. I think I have to......Just really don't understand that check box for when you render out.
 
Re: Widescreen settings for use with projector

When you are going to render a file from the timeline there is a check box on the bottom left........the one that says "do not letterbox" or whatever on the bottom left next to "render loop region only" and something else.
 
Re: Widescreen settings for use with projector

I am at my computer with vegas now, So i can tell you exactly what it says. It says "Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox)" I thought that I knew what this meant. But When I am in the widescreen template and then I check it, it does exactly the opposite of what I thought it did. Why even have this, don't you specify this kind of thing when you choose widescreen template or standard template. I mean, if you do widescreen you dont have letterboxed widescreen you have full output widescreen size video and when you have it on standard template, and you crop things to 16:9 you have letterboxed 4:3 video....correct?! I mean, why do you need this other checkbox?
 
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