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  • Can I change an already rendered file?

    Posted by Steve Edwards on July 16, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    I rendered 6 different videos, and now want to change them to widescreen, can I just pull them onto the timeline in a new project and re-render them to widescreen.
    Project properties were:HDV 720-30p, and want to change to:NTSC DV Widescreen.
    Rendered them to: NTSC DVD, and want to change to: DVD Architech NTSC Widescreen.

    I hope I can do this otherwise have to start from scratch.

    Matt Crowley replied 13 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Acres

    July 17, 2012 at 2:48 am

    go back to your original projects and render them as widescreen?

    And to answer your question, yes you can, just load the 4:3 videos into Vegas and then change each clips aspect ratio to 16:9 and then render as widescreen.

  • Matt Crowley

    July 17, 2012 at 7:05 am

    It’s possible to re-render the NTSC DVD videos to DVD Widescreen but you’ll get quite a quality loss, as the 4:3 video is probably already letterboxed to be even smaller than the widescreen template will give you.

    It’s better to render from your 720p videos, since they are already 16:9 widescreen and they are higher quality.

    Even better is to render from your original project to the DVD widescreen format.

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