• VEGAS Pro

  16×9 captured as 4×3

  Posted by Paul Gregory on December 26, 2006 at 11:51 pm

  I connected my Canon camcorder to the firewire port & tried capturing my video. The video was shot in true 16×9 & displayed as such on the playback screen of the camcorder. I have now tried capturing the video twice with DVDA3, once with the capture setting set to 16×9 & once set to automatic. As soon as I open it in Vegas I can see that the clips are just 4×3. I can right click on one clip & change it to 16×9 & it then displayed correctly on the playback preview.

  Since I have the Vegas project set to 16×9 wide screen I can’t see why the clips are 4×3. I suppose that I could change each clip one at a time to 16.9 so that the pixel ratio is set 1.468 but I am unsure if doing so will result in a loss of quality. I never had this problem happen before when I capture wide screen footage. Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance

  Paul Gregory replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Achatz

  December 28, 2006 at 7:25 am

  Why not use the capture tool in Vegas. I think you’ll find that works better, then trying to capture with DVDA.
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  Paul Gregory

  December 28, 2006 at 8:59 am

  I must have been having a senior moment. I can’t think why I said I tried capturing using DVDA 3 since I used Vegas.

  Thanks in advance

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