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Scaling/distortion with 720×486 clips
I am taking a bunch of clips that were mostly outputted on Macs from Final Cut Pro, placiing them in a Vegas NTSC DV project and then exporting as DVD MPEG-2 files. Most of the clips are 720×480 DV clips, but some were captured and exported using the Pinnacle Cinewave format, which is 720×486.
On Mac/FinalCut Pro, I used to have problems when outputting Cinewave clips as 720×480 DV or MPEG-2 files, because it would attempt to scale them and cause weird interlace errors in the resulting video.
DV is listed as a 3:2 aspect ratio, while the Cinewave clips are listed as 40:27 I believe. I want to avoid the same problem in Vegas. I deactivated ‘Stretch to Whole Frame’ and ‘Preserve Aspect Ratio’ for each clip, as well as turning of Resampling, but I’m not sure I’m out of the woods.
How do I make sure 720×486 material on a 720×480 timeline gets outputted to a 720×480 file cleanly?
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This is Vegas. Don’t worry about it.
Before you think I’m being flippant, I’m serious.
Vegas really doesn’t care what the the original aspect ratio size is as it will automatically scale it to fit the project properties.
I deal with 720 x 486 files from my other NLE (dpsVelocity) as well as from animation files (Maya).
Vegas hasn’t once complained about or given me grief about the difference.
BTW, because of this, there’s no need to go through any of the steps you mentioned.
You can do a “Match Output Aspect” if you want but, IMO, it’s not really necessary either.
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