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HDV to Widescreen DV help
Hi,
I am trying to render video captured in HDV format (1440×1080) for repackaging in DVD Architect, and am not sure what settings should be used for the project and rendering. From my understanding of this, the output from vegas should be 720×480 pixels with a PAR of 1.1852 so that the image will be displayed correctly at 853×480 (16:9). However, Vegas seems to be convinced that the PAR should be set to 1.21 for DV Widescreen. This results in unwanted letterboxing on the left and right sides of the video.
What am I doing wrong?
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3 Replies
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Vegas is correct. NTSC DV Widescreen is 720×480 with a PAR of 1.2121 (not quite 16:9). Set your project to NTSC DV Widescreen setting and render with the NTSC DV Widescreen template and everything should match. You may have slight black pillarboxes which can be fixed by rendering with the Stretch to Fill Frame option.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Just what I was looking for! I don’t know how I never saw that feature before. Thanks so much. Is there an option to crop to fill the frame so it doesn’t have to stretch? (Not that a 2% stretch will make that much of a difference)
On a side note, could you give me an example of when you would use different (Resolution/PAR/Field Order) project settings and render settings for a final render? I didn’t see that it made much difference if I had the project settings as HDV or DV widescreen when rendering to DV widescreen. I’m just trying to get a clear idea of what each one specifically does, or at least how the project settings effect the render.
Cheers,
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> Is there an option to crop to fill the frame so it doesn’t have to stretch?
No, you would have to do that manually. The easiest way is to drop the project into a new DV Widescreen project as a “nested project” and then open Pan/Crop on that one long event and right-click the image and select Match Output Aspect. Then render.
> On a side note, could you give me an example of when you would use different (Resolution/PAR/Field Order) project settings and render settings for a final render?
I would only change them if I was rendering to a format like the web that doesn’t support PAR or interlacing. In that case you would modify the resolution to make the PAR 1.0000 which is what the web needs. For example, if I were to render DV Widescreen to Quicktime or MP4 for web use, I would render as 873×480 PAR 1.0000 Progressive.
> I’m just trying to get a clear idea of what each one specifically does, or at least how the project settings effect the render.
The way the project settings affect the render is that you are editing to the project settings. If you render to a resolution and PAR are different than the project, you may be surprised that things don’t line up as you expected. So as a general rule, I like to keep my project settings the same as my delivery format so that what I see in the project is what I get when delivered.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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