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4:3 to 16:9 – is there a way to do a “smart stretch”?
I have been rendering 4:3 material for streaming playback on a 16:9 60i display. Been settinng the pixel ratio in the Video Clip Properties, and then the DVD Widescreen setting in the Event Pan/Crop popup. That works fine, but I was wondering if there was a way to do the same sort of “progressive stretch” that many of the better widescreen TVs do. This keeps the main center of the image relatively undistorted, and widens it gradually as you get closer to the edges of the frame. Can I do this with Vegas Pro 9?
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[Tony Pat] “I was wondering if there was a way to do the same sort of “progressive stretch” that many of the better widescreen TVs do. This keeps the main center of the image relatively undistorted, and widens it gradually as you get closer to the edges of the frame. Can I do this with Vegas Pro 9?”
No, there is no way to do this with Vegas Pro. That might make an interesting plug-in. I don’t have any TV’s that do this so I’ve never seen it. All of my HD TV’s have various degrees of cropping and of course just a simple stretch that looks terrible.
One thing you could do is place a blurred 16:9 version on the track below and it will show through the edges. You’ll see this done on the news a lot with 4:3 footage.
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[John Rofrano] “No, there is no way to do this with Vegas Pro. That might make an interesting plug-in. I don’t have any TV’s that do this so I’ve never seen it. All of my HD TV’s have various degrees of cropping and of course just a simple stretch that looks terrible.”
That’s too bad.
The effect is available at least on Panasonic and Pioneer plasmas (the latter no longer made, unfortunately). When done well it provides a way to fill the screen without generating a lot of noiceable distortion in the center portion of the image. I guee the thinking is that most times, what’s in the center 30-40% of the image area is the most important.
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