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Changing/Stretching aspect ratio of 16:9 to 4:3 with Sony Vegas.
Finding solution for this quest has been impossible, because every time I have searched for it, there will be videos about “how to change/stretch 4:3 videos to 16:9” only. So I figured that I could find the answer here.
I have a video clip with aspect ratio of 16:9 what I want to stretch back into 4:3 so bad. I’d like to know if this kind of operation can be done with Vegas 11? If not, please suggest other ways for making it.
Tanel
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You have 2 final outcomes:
1/- Letterbox – Black bars above and below
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2/- Crop to 4:3 – this will give you the central portion of the previous 16:9 and you’ll loose the areas outside this central area.
Which do you prefer?
Grazie
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As Graham said you can letterbox or crop. To letter box just drop your 16:9 media into 4:3 project and Vegas Pro will letterbox it for you (this is the default behavior). If you want to crop, just open Event Pan/Crop and right-click the windows and select Match Output Aspect and your 16:9 event will be cropped to the 4:3 project.
There is a third option which is to stretch the 16:9 event to be taller so that it matches the 4:3 ratio. This must be done at the Track level. Open up Track Motion and disable Lock Aspect Ratio and resize the 16:9 media to fill the 4:3 frame. Everything will be tall and thin but there will be no black bars from letterboxing and no loss of picture data from cropping. (i think it looks bad but some people watch TV like this all the time)
~jr
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Thank you for your reply. I’ve tried to letterbox and cropping it, but in the end the result didn’t match expectations. However, John’s third option was the method what I was looking for.
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Thank you for answering and solving the issue. The Track Motion change was the method I was looking for.
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You don’t have to letterbox or crop. Graham Bernard is wrong. Here’s a video by Temporal Paradox which explains an easy way to make 4:3 videos with Sony Vegas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBhjRE8gKXw
-Michael Kelley
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[Michael Kelley] “You don’t have to letterbox or crop. Graham Bernard is wrong. “
I don’t understand? The OP wanted to place a 4:3 Video into an exsisting 16:9 plate. And reviewing that 15 minute YT, unless I totally missed it, the video doesn’t appear to, nor sets out to, address this particular, excuse the pun, ASPECT.
However, and most usefully, the video does address how to make 3 frame Sizes when working with 4:3 videos from exsisting 4:3 Videos. That’s a good thing. But that’s not what’s being asked for here: How to get 4:3 into 16:9 plate. OTOH, Michael, if you did registered that in the 15 minute, nicely put together video on creating different Frame Sizes (not ratios) and Bitrate Templates to make different end-sized file sizes, and making Template Notes, please illuminate me. I didn’t pick that up.
Michael thanks for the YT link. And I appreciate your reference to Proverbs.
* Grazie
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