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Multicam project two different aspect ratios.
Hello forum, I’ve got myself in a little bit of bind, did a three camera shoot of a local band. Two Canon GL-2s (one for close-ups one for medium shot)
One Canon Vixia HV-30 locked down at back of room for wide shot. During the shoot I thought I set the HV-30 to 4:3 to match the
GL-2’s..Wrong!!! So now I have to do a multicam project with 16:9
4:3. So I went to pan/ crop on the two GL-2 clips and sized them to look like 16:9 of the HV-30. However when I opened multicam project I lost the cropping. Is there any way to access pan crop in the project media window? Or should I approach this in a different way?
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Do you have Ultimate S? This would allow you to cut any aspect ratio and then match later.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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There are 2 different ways to pan-scan in Vegas. You can do it with the Track Motion that affects the whole track, and you can do it with the Crop tool on each event. I’m not sure how you are doing it, but if you first do your multicam edit, then expand out to multiple tracks, you should be able to use the track motion feature on that camera’s track.
If that doesn’t work, I’d do your pan and scanning in a separate project, render it out and bring it back in.
btw, if the widescreen footage was shot in HD, I’d crop the HD to 4:3 to match the other 4:3 rather than doing it vice versa. Cropping 4:3 SD to widescreen in post is pretty ugly..
hope that helps. good luck.
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Had a similar situation myself a couple of weeks ago.. The problem with cropping the 16:9 to suit the 4:3 is you loose a load of footage on the outer part of the video.
The only thing I could do in the end was deliver the project as a widescreen PAL – so you ended up with letterboxing, and in the pan/crop output-aspect-matched the 4:3 – so it did zoom in a bit – but it looked ok (or so I was told!!).
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Thank you guys, a lot of good information that I need to digest, hope to work on it this weekend. For once don’t have a deadline for this one!! If I’ve got questions I’ll be back at the forum ,thank you
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