Set import pixel ratio for stills in Vegas 7

[Laszlo Kovacs]

How do you inport image sequences?

The way I do:
-File/import media
-look for the image with the first frame (eg. img0001.tif)
-select it, when selected there’s a checkbox below: “open still image seqence”
check this, whne necessary set the range, but this always defaults for me correct
-open
-I choose the alpha (straight-unmatted: images from PI seem to have such alpha channel, that depends on your source)
Also, here you can change the pixel aspect ratio, I usually don’ care for this,
but:
After I got it in the media pool, drag to timeline;
then in the event pan/crop I set maintain aspect ratio to “NO” and stretch to “YES”.

So the image completely fills my projects frame.

Was this helpful to you?

I hope… 😉

By(t)e
K.L.

[Edward Troxel]

You could use a script to change them all for you at once. Or you might try the following:

Open up the properties, adjust the settings as you need, and then click on the little “disk” icon on the properties screen.

Edward Troxel

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks guys for your interest,

Lazlo that’s the way I do it with bitmap sequences, it’s when I import individual frames from these sequences for subsequent compositing, that the par is not set correctly.

jeditdv, the only little disk icon I can see on the properties dialogue of one of the bitmaps is one next to the ‘Stream’, is that the one you mean?

Also can one of you tell me why Vegas insists that par for D1 is 1.0926, when everywhere else it’s 1.0666666

Thank you again,

Alan

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I guess Ed means that little disk…

So you can save the video profile.
I never used that so far.

I still have to learn vegas 🙂
Thanks Ed!

By(t)e
K.L.

[Alan Lacey]

I suppose so but it doesn’t seem to want to work for still formats.

Whats the ‘stream’ thing? I can’t see anything in the helpfile about that?

Regards Alan

[Edward Troxel]

Yes. On the “Media” tab of the properties, change the settings at the bottom however you want and then click on the little disk icon beside the “Stream” dropdown.

Edward Troxel

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Ed but it still doesn’t work for me with these (1.093 par) jpg stills.

Can you confirm that V7 does do this on your setup?

Many thanks Alan

[Edward Troxel]

I added a JPG image to the timeline, changed the PAR to .9091, and clicked the “disk” icon. I then started a new project, added a JPG to the timeline (a different one), and it got a PAR of .9091 instead of 1.000.

Edward Troxel

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Edward,

Yes, it worked for me also, once I’d closed and opened Vegas again.

Alan