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  DVX100 Whitepaper for Vegas Projects WRONG suggestion Pixel Aspect ratio

  Posted by Neil Slade on June 10, 2005 at 1:11 am

  Okay, I can’t believe I’m the only one who has noticed this

  I’ve got a DVX100 Letterbox project, shot in 24AP

  I monitor with an external 20″ Sony Wega, brand new.

  It chops of the right and left edges of the image maybe 5% on each side when editing. Its the same on any TV or monitor.

  I looked at the properties– set to NTSC DV24p, just like the whitepaper says to, since this is not really widescreen, but letterboxed by the DVX, and follows the production workflow in the Vegas Whitepaper for the DVX100 projects.

  I first noticed that the PREVIEW window in Vegas is DISTORTED– smashed down, rather than exactly perfect ration- the whole image is there, but its squished.

  Further, my EXTERNAL PREVIEW MONITOR clearly has chopped off the right and left image edges. !!

  The ONLY CURE is to go into the PROPERTIES box and in PIXEL ASPECT RATIO reselect SQUARE PIXEL instead of the default NTSC DV .9091 which is what is selected according to the Sony Vegas Whitepaper for DVX projects.

  This restores the missing portions of the video image edges on my monitor and also puts my Vegas preview window in a correct unsquished state.

  ?????????? How could they get this wrong in the whitepaper recommendations?

  THEN– when I render the file for DVD Architect, I have to do the same thing– as when I select the suggested default Mainconcept MPEG-2 file, if I leave it as default– I get the same chopped off edges in my rendered file and subsequent DVD. If I modify the suggested default settings and again choose Custom/Video/Pixel Aspect Ratio and select SQUARE– my DVD comes out with the correct whole picture showing instead of the edges missing.

  If I don’t render with square pixels, the resultant MPEG file and subsequent burned DVD is flattened, and once again the edges are missing.

  SO what gives? How come no one is talking about this? The one note I’ve found in regard to this in the Vegas manual says square pixels should not be used for stuff ending up on TV, but its the ONLY way to get the image to look right in both external monitor preivew and rendered and burned DVDs

  ????????

  Neil Slade
  http://www.NeilSlade.com

  Neil Slade
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