• VEGAS Pro

  Best way to convert this 3:2 to 16:9

  Posted by Griff Hamlin on September 4, 2013 at 8:26 pm

  I have some footage that is 3:2 (720×480 pixels square.)

  I would like to convert this to a 640×360 (16:9 square pixel)and/or NTSC Widescreen (also 16:9 but I don’t know if the pixels are square) by cropping the top and bottom and narrowing the remainder.

  I notice that when I use the crop/pan tool to do it, it seems like during times of motion that the footage becomes wavy. I used to think it was something with interlacing, but I believe it has more to do with the cropping/zooming based on some other research I’ve done.

  I saw something about using a mask, but I can’t figure out how that would work. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks.

  Here is the mediainfo from the source material:
  Format : Windows Media
  File size : 47.5 MiB
  Duration : 1mn 21s
  Overall bit rate mode : Constant
  Overall bit rate : 4 878 Kbps
  Maximum Overall bit rate : 6 294 Kbps
  Encoded date : UTC 2013-08-08 17:20:57.820

  Video
  ID : 2
  Format : WMV2
  Codec ID : WMV2
  Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 8
  Description of the codec : Windows Media Video V8
  Duration : 1mn 21s
  Bit rate mode : Constant
  Bit rate : 6 000 Kbps
  Width : 720 pixels
  Height : 480 pixels
  Display aspect ratio : 3:2
  Frame rate : 29.970 fps
  Standard : NTSC
  Bit depth : 8 bits
  Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.579
  Stream size : 58.4 MiB
  Language : English (US)
  NumberOfFrames : 2431

  Griff Hamlin replied 12 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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