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How do you export to WMV 9 1920×1080?
I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v7 and want to export edited Cineform intermediate HDV footage, originated on an FX1, to WMV9 using square pixels at 1920×1080. This version of Vegas won’t allow 1920 wide output. It limits me to 1440×1080 w/ 1.33 pixels. Does the “real” Vegas allow 1920?? If not, how does one get around this limitation?
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[timmy2] “It limits me to 1440×1080 w/ 1.33 pixels.”
That is the proper resolution for your HDV footage.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thank you for responding. I realize the original footage is 1440×1080, but here’s the catch: I want the resulting WMV files to be able to play on a hardware player, in this case an Avel LinkPlayer.
I rendered to a test WMV file in Vegas Movie Studio at 1440/1.333 and another test WMV file from Premier 2’s Media Encoder, which allowed me to specify an image size of 1920×1080 with square pixels. Both WMV files look fine in Windows Media Player. But when I burn them to a CD and play these files in the LinkPlayer, the Premier one at 1920×1080 fills my HDTV’s screen perfectly. But the Vegas 1440×1080 version plays with black bars on each side and is squashed horizontally just like you get when you play a widescreen video on a standard 4:3 TV.
As a side note, both Premier 1.5 and 2.0 offer much more control over the WMV file than Vegas does, which is sad because I’d hoped to apply the settings learned in Premier 2 to Vegas.
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Hmmm, I’m new to Vegas, hoping it will solve some of my NLE problems and this is bad news!
Alan
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In the full version of Vegas (I looked in Vegas 7), after selecting the HD preset, you can then click on “Custom”. Going to the “Video” tab, you can then change the “Image Size” to Custom which will allow you to change the height and width as desired. You can also change the PAR to 1.000 (Square).
Edward Troxel
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But can you definitely set the size to 1920×1080? Please try that and see if it lets you actually use it.
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It didn’t seem to complain.
Edward Troxel
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Cool! This must be an advantage of the full Vegas over the cheaper Movie Studio version. I’ll have to look into this more deeply. Thanks.
BTW, does the full version of Vegas allow you to put the preview window on a second monitor for a larger, more accurate view?
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I’m going to start a new post about my pleasant surprise upon trying Vegas’ “full” version. We can stop this thread because the difference between it and Movie Studio is significant.
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