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Masking Problems on Sony Vegas 8.0
I am doing quite alot of Masking, and it is my first time but I’m getting the hang of it, the problem is, when I’m masking an object, I place obviously the background under neath the object I am masking on a lower timeline, the thing is it looks perfect on Sony Vegas, but when I upload it to Youtube it looks like this:
As you see, it looks awful and I want him IN the background image, not overlapping it, but it didn’t look like that on Sony Vegas at all. I hope I’m making sense, I would be very grateful if anyone could help me, or give me tips on Masking, because trust me, I don’t want to get stressed again.
Thanks!
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13 Replies
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Um, some obvious questions, just to get some more information:
You are rendering it out as what format?
Does the rendered project look fine in Media Player?
What are your project settings?
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
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The type I save it as when rendering is Windows Media Video V9 (*wmv)
It looks fine on the Sony Vegas Window, just when I rendered it and viewed it in Windows Media Player and Youtube that it looked terrible.
My project setting are:
Template: NTSC DV (720×480, 29.970 fps)
Basically the whole default settings
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I’m guessing that your YouTube render is not the same resolution as your project. If this is correct, this may be the problem. I would set your project properties to match you render properties. This way, what you see in the project will match what you see in the render.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thank you
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This is the wrong aspect ratio for YouTube. 720×480 implies an anamorphic pixel aspect ratio. For YouTube you either want 640×360 (16:9) or 640×480 (4:3) — either way the PAR should be square, aka 1.0. More detail later if that’s not clear.
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Thanks, I put that but I don’t know what’s wrong because it goes full screen on Sony Vegas, but when I put it on Youtube it looks awful
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There are at least two (main) places (and probably uncounted ways, considering how many I’ve found along the way) to mess up aspect ratio, especially when rendering for streaming video sites.
In Vegas 8+ the first main one is in setting Project Properties. It’s also possible to mess up in many aspects of the Pan&Crop settings for your various layers, which to look at the still you shared, is something I suspect is happening here, leading to the funny overlap of the masked image on the composited background.
You get yet a third chance to mess things up in rendering settings. Until you’re very comfortable with the effects and very familiar with the fact that most local media players will compensate for anamorphic settings, for instance when you render something in 720×480 (16:9 widescreen or 4:3 standard ratio) for use in DVD production, where these settings are not just appropriate but almost essential.
The problem can thus hide itself at least somewhat until you upload to YouTube or vimeo, where only square pixels are “understood” and everything uploaded is assumed to be using square pixels.
Your local player can generally read the metadata in video files, indicating what aspect ratio to apply to individual pixels, enabling a 702×480 field of pixels to be reshaped to almost any rectangular shape you desire.
I hope that’s a little clearer than my rushed reply of earlier this morning.
The best practical approach is probably to render some very short test videos playing with various settings, layers, cropping and so on until you feel that you intuitively understand what’s going on in each area: project properties, pan & crop keyframing and rendering settings. The more you mess with it and make mistakes the better you’ll gradually come to understand what is happening and how to fix it (and also how to use it to your creative advantage).
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Thank you very much, it doesn’t seem to be happening to anyone else who does Masking with Sony Vegas, so it could be my Sony Vegas, or I’ll just have to try it out like you said, thanks. 🙂
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Hannah, if you’d like… send me your .veg file and I’ll take a look at it. I don’t need any media. I’ll substitute media that I have. Perhaps I can see something in the project that is causing this (although if it is caused by the media aspect, my substituting media will not show the same behavior). You can find my email by going to my web site and clicking on the contacts page.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Thank you very much, I would really appreciate it.
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