PAL Widescreen

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PAL Widescreen

Posted by Pete Locascio on January 14, 2009 at 10:21 pm

I’ve been trying to render a project in the PAL widescreen format. It rendered in the PAL format, but I can’t seem to get the proper aspect ratio when I watch the project in the preview window during the rendering process. All the subject’s bodies and faces were stretched vertically and the faces looked long and thin. I chose PAL widescreen from the project properties prior to importing the file and used the pan and crop window to match the output aspect, as suggested by Steve Rhoden. I tried rendering it once as PAL DV and once as PAL widescreen video stream, but results were the same. I also chose the render option, not to letterbox, as I always do in NTSC widescreen projects. Is that a problem for the PAL format? I welcome any help you can offer. Thanks!

John Rofrano replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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John Rofrano
January 15, 2009 at 12:44 am

> All the subject’s bodies and faces were stretched vertically and the faces looked long and thin.

Do you have Simulate Device Aspect Ratio enabled in your Vegas preview (right-click the preview to see). if not, you will get tall thin people as you have described.

~jr

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Pete Locascio
January 15, 2009 at 2:57 am

I have Device Aspect Ratio enabled. I haven’t encountered the same problem with regular NTSC projects. This is the first time I’ve tried to convert an NTSC video to PAL, so I’m probably doing something else wrong. Thanks for your response!
John Rofrano
January 16, 2009 at 3:17 am

> This is the first time I’ve tried to convert an NTSC video to PAL

You failed to mention that in your first post. NTSC is 720×480 while PAL is 720×576 so your 480 tall video is being streteched vertically to 576! That’s 96 extra scan lines that must be filled making the video stretch 1/6 taller than it actually is. Could it be this is what you are seeing?

~jr

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Pete Locascio
January 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I never considered the difference in the height of two formats. Your response makes perfect sense. I was able to compensate for the difference using the event pan and crop tool. Are there any other ways to fix the problem? Thanks!
John Rofrano
January 16, 2009 at 8:27 pm

> Are there any other ways to fix the problem?

Cropping or stretching are the only ways I know of to compensate.

~jr

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