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Vegas anamorphic issues
Hi. I have shot some footage on pd100 (shoots 4:3) with a Century Optics anamorphic lens. I am trying to unsquash this to 16:9 in the output. I have tried bringing the footage in as 4:3 and rendering out using DV Widescreen settings and clicking the stretch to fit output checkbox, but it looks stretched!. It I don’t check this box it looks squashed. An tips on how best to out put the footage?.
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I’ve never dealt with this, but have you tried using the Event Pan/Crop window? That is where I’d start, if you haven’t already. Try the presets, and if those don’t work, turn “Maintain Aspect Ratio” off, and unlock the “Lock Aspect Ratio Hold” option on the left side of the Pan/Crop screen. In doing so, you can stretch or squash the image however you want, which might allow you to make it look the way it should.
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I think I have tried the presets without success. I’ll try tweaking it manually and see if I can get close to what I want. So just to clarify if I unlock the lock aspect ratio I should be able to adjust to fit the 16:9 frame I want. Sounds feasible I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the input.
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if I unlock the lock aspect ratio I should be able to adjust to fit the 16:9 frame I want
You need to unlock “Lock aspect ratio”, and also turn off “Maintain aspect ratio” under “Source”.
Let me know how it works out.
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Better yet, rather than contact him, maybe somebody here can tell me the best way to fix a troublesome graphic using either Photoshop, Vegas, or a combination of the two!
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…the best way to fix a troublesome graphic…
Start a new thread and ask the question again, with a few more details, and I’m sure you’ll get some help.
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Not in front of Vegas at the moment but had a similar issue with Century anamorphic material shot on a PD150 in 4:3. From memory the answer was to create a 16:9 job, bring in all your footage, right click and set the clip properties to 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, job done. If you have bins full of these 4:3 squashed clips there is a script called: ‘ChangeMediaPoolAspectRatio’ available which allows you change all pool clps in one hit. I think the script is in one of the bundles of Vegas 5 scripts available from:
Once done edit the job as a normal 16:9 widescreen job and render out as such. Good luck.
Chris Young
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Thanks for that. I think I tried this, and wasn’t convinced that it looked correct. I’ll sit down and have another crack at it. Thanks for your input, it’s appreciated a lot.
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