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Sony Vegas and Projecting Image
I recently rendered a clip from a film my son is making. Camera: Canon HV-20, filmed in widescreen and high def. Rendered it as highest quality that I could using Sony Vegas Pro 9. Rendered it as an MPEG2, put it on a DVD and put it in my projector to project onto big wide screen.
For some reason, the image does not fill the screen. The image is definetly widescreen with black bars on top and bottom – but also on the sides.
When I made a film last year, my image filled the screen completely. Do you know what I’m doing wrong? Is it a rendering issue? A project issue? A DVD Architect issue? Need to know soon as he’s having a showing in less than a week.
Thanks!
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Both your project and your render should be set to widescreen. It sounds like you may have rendered a widescreen project to 4:3 which would letterbox the 16:9 within 4:3 and when played back on a 16:9 projector would also add black pillarboxes around the 4:3 (with the letterboxed 16:9 inside that).
If this is going to NTSC DVD, make sure that you use the MainConcept MPEG2 render template: DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream and render the audio separate as Dolby Digital AC3.
~jr
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Thanks John,
I’ll have to check the settings that my son used to capture the video but since it’s already in letterboxed form my assumption is that it has to deal with DVD Architect – not Sony Vegas. I’ll have to check the settings in that program. (Version 5.0)
I’ll re-check the render, too – to make sure it’s widescreen. I’m positive it is.
If you have any other ideas – would love to hear them.
Thanks again.
Matt
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The problem may be that you’re trying to render a non-standard DVD. DVDs don’t support HD, so when you go to playback in that projector it’s hard to say what it might do.
Really, to do it right, you need to film in HDV, edit in HDV, but then render to a DVD template that you’ve manually changed the output from 4:3 to 16:9. This will result in a standard widescreen DVD that the projector should playback normally.
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I figured it out. My son had already rendered the M2T clips as WMVs in a format that was 4:3 ratio with “widescreen” in the center. When I tried to re-render them as an MPG in widescreen format it would not work (which does not surprise me). Tonight I grabbed two non rendered M2T clips and put them in the Sony Vegas media line and then I grabbed one of his rendered clips. I rendered all three as an MPG2 and voila! When I projected the image the first two filled the screen to the edges perfectly while the rendered showed me what I figured it would: letter-boxed in a 4:30 ratio with black bars all around. This means my son will have to re-edit his project from the ground up but…that’s okay, it’s a learning process.
Thanks everyone for your input.
Matt
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Glad you figured it out. You son shouldn’t have to re-edit his project unless the actual project was 4:3. Even then, he just may need to make the project 16:9. If he just rendered wrong all he needs to do is re-render.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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