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Problem changing size of video/aspect resolution for a client
I have a 720×512 video, PAR of .9481, that a client sent to me and needed a few changes. It may go on tv, and the issue is that in the file they gave me, there’s a black bar at the top of the video file that they sent to me, and now they want it removed. I can do it if I merely crop the video a little, but I’ve done so much masking and cropping in one section, I’d have to redo all that. Maybe I’ll just have to, but is there some render setting I can do to resize the video?
Here’s a screen shot (I masked out the actor, which is probably for no reason, but somehow I’d feel it might be considered unseemly to show him).
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Can you take your current project and nest it inside another .veg? In the parent, set a pan/crop event on the child to remove the black bar.
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I can’t. Unfortunately, in one part of the video, there are a few items that fade onto the screen that I was requested to crop out, which I did by masking and cropping certain areas of the frame. Basically, like a lot of split screening, only with specific parts of the screen cropped and masked and put over other parts of the same shot. If I were to just pan and crop the whole video, all those elements would be distorted.
So for now it looks like I have to start over with all that and rebuild those masks and crops. It’s only a few hours of work (and no one informed me that I should remove the black bar until today, which my client understands).
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Move along, everyone. Because I already had the changes layed out, I just rendered the cropped video to a new track and was able to build the changes much quicker than the first time since I could refer back to everything I did before.
Edit: What was I thinking? I could just render the whole video to a new track and crop that.
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Looks like you worked it out, no?
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Actually, no. After about 8 hours going back and forth with the client and people at the tv station, even if I render the video out to the same resolution and PAR it is now in mpeg2 (which they can accept in lieu of an mov or Pro Res file of the video scaled to 720×486 or 480, I can’t remember), the text at the bottom of the video is out of the safe area.
So the problem basically is that the video, which a different company made for my client two years ago, left with them the wrong sized video for broadcast. So I’ll have to go to their office Monday, collect all the footage and video they have from the video company, and go through it for the video of a different size. Which means more delays, and I can’t even be sure if I’ll find what I need. But I’ll have yet more solutions to suggest if that doesn’t work out, like contacting the video company themselves for different file sizes of the video.
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