• VEGAS Pro

  Imported video won’t display in correct width

  Posted by Graydon Trusler on November 21, 2008 at 2:44 pm

  I’m using Vegas Pro 8 and I’m pretty new to it. I’m importing video from a Canon FS11 and I can’t get Vegas to show the video in the correct width. The video from the camera is 860×480, but when I bring it into Vegas, it is displayed as 720×480. I’ve tried changing the project template to 860×480, but it still shows the video as 720×480 with black bars to the left and right.

  Is there a step I’m missing?

  Thanks,
  Graydon

  Graydon Trusler replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
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  Steve Rhoden

  November 21, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  Try opening the “event pan/crop” window (pressing the little box
  on the edge of the video clip)…then you right click and select
  “match output aspect”.

  Steve Rhoden
  (Cow Leader)
  Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
  Portfolio at:
  http://www.youtube.com/hentys
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  Graydon Trusler

  November 21, 2008 at 11:35 pm

  Thanks Steve, but I’m not sure that’s it. That adjusts the pan & crop window, but the problem seems to be with the source video.

  In other words, when I drop the source video into Vegas, it’s too narrow. The original source video is actually 860×480, but Vegas is squeezing it into a 720×480 window. Since the actual source is getting squeezed, the output comes out that way also.

  I’ve actually cheated by forcing my flash player to stretch it back out, but that doesn’t really fix the problem, it just makes it look right on my website.

  Graydon
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  Steve Rhoden

  November 22, 2008 at 1:29 am

  What version of vegas are you using and which OS?

  Steve Rhoden
  (Cow Leader)
  Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
  Portfolio at:
  http://www.youtube.com/hentys
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  Graydon Trusler

  November 22, 2008 at 2:35 am

  It’s Vegas Pro 8 and I’m running Vista x64.
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  Steve Rhoden

  November 22, 2008 at 3:18 am

  As i have guessed…There is a current bug in vegas 8.1
  64bit version..that causes what you are experiencing,
  numerous editors have the same problem arising.
  Try using 8.0c for the time being to avoid this glitch.
  Sony is aware of it and will address it in an update soon.

  Steve Rhoden
  (Cow Leader)
  Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
  Portfolio at:
  http://www.youtube.com/hentys
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  Graydon Trusler

  November 22, 2008 at 3:43 am

  Thanks. This has been driving me nuts trying to figure it out.

  Graydon
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  Graydon Trusler

  November 22, 2008 at 8:41 pm

  I spoke too soon. I just checked and I’m running 8.0c. I didn’t realize that I wasn’t running the 64 bit version of Vegas.

  Any other ideas?

  Thanks,
  Graydon

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