Shrink 16:9 to 4:3 in Sony Movie Studio 10

[John Rofrano]

[Val Kotelnikov] “I want to change the aspect ratio back to 4:3 before start working on it.”

Drop it into a 4:3 project, then open Track Motion, disable Lock Aspect Ratio, and drag any corner to fill the 4:3 screen (which will stretch it back).

~jr

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[Wayne Waag]

First, set your project properties to 4:3, e.g. NTSC DV (720 x 480). When you import your 16:9 file, there should be black bars on top and bottom. To fill the black bars and stretch your image back to 4:3, open the Pan/Crop box. Under Source, Change Maintain aspect ratio to “No” and Stretch to fill frame to “yes”. The black bars should disappear and your frame should be filled at the correct aspect ratio. In the event I misunderstood your problem, a screen shot would be useful.

wwaag

[John Rofrano]

Good point. Wayne’s approach will fix it at the event level so you would do this to each event. My way fixes it at the track level so any event placed on that track will be stretched. I kinda like Wayne’s way better if you don’t have a lot of events.

~jr

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[Wayne Waag]

I kinda like Wayne’s way better if you don’t have a lot of events.

Even if you do, just copy the first event after making the correction, select the remaining events and PEA (Paste Event Attributes). This way, you can have other events on that track that are not 16:9 such as stills. That’s the nice thing about Vegas–there’s usually more than one way to get the job done.

wwaag

[Val Kotelnikov]

Oh … thank you very much. I used Wayne’s approach on one file and John’s on the other. To-morrow I’ll be back with the results!

[John Rofrano]

[Wayne Waag] “That’s the nice thing about Vegas–there’s usually more than one way to get the job done.”

Indeed, there usually always is. 😀

~jr

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[Val Kotelnikov]

Wayne’s way worked perfectly well, the other one is still under way.
Thanks!

[Wayne Waag]

Glad it’s working for you and that you’ve now learned the two ways of doing it. Using these two methods in concert allows you to do other things, e.g. crop the image first in the pan/crop window and then move it around using track motion to create a picture-in-picture effect. Lots of possibilities.

wwaag

[Val Kotelnikov]

Thank you. Be ready for more questions 😉
“A fool can ask more questions than 100 wise men can answer” (Chinese proverb)

[John Rofrano]

[Val Kotelnikov] “”A fool can ask more questions than 100 wise men can answer” (Chinese proverb)”

Better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt! 😉

Just kidding… we love questions… what else would we do during those long renders?

~jr

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