Vegas- displaying a portion of a larger clip in a smaller project

[Paul Berk]

>>I have a 1920 x 1080 video. I want to apply a hitfilm action camera correction to it, anchoring it at >>the corners. Then, I want to only display the middle 1440 x 720 of that image

Then make your project properties 1920 x 1080. Then use Vegas pan/crop to crop the hit film video to 1440 x 720. That should work.

[Byron Nelson]

Thanks for the reply, but I still can’s achieve my goal.

Here is a shot of the original video.

Here is what I am hoping to achieve-

I want to output a video of the dimensions that are marked by the red center rectangle. I essentially want to have a video with the distorted corners cut off without letterboxing.

I think I am following the steps you outlined. I use the 1920×1080 project properties. Then I pan/crop down to size and I obtain this-

Then I distort, and I achieve the following

Which is a distortion of the cropped image. Either with stretching the image in the pan/crop settings or not the result is the distortion is of the cropped image.

So, I reversed order of the distort and crop, and tried to distort first, then crop.
And that simply came out bizzare regardless.

Hitfilm seems to treat the video as a canvas with the project properties defining a window looking onto that canvas such that they can be different sizes. Their Pan/crop (transform controls) moves and sizes the canvas where you can fit it into the window as you wish.

For instance, putting the bigger video into a project with a smaller window only shows me a portion of that canvas. Then, when I distort the canvas, I bring in elements that I want into the window, leaving the corners outside.

I can’t quite intuit what it is that Vegas does.

Thanks,
Byron

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Byron

Just so I get what you’re aiming for, can you post an example made with Hitfilm ?

Cheers !

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[Edward Troxel]

What if you move the distort effect to the left of “Pan/Crop”?

Edward Troxel

[Byron Nelson]

What I get then is in the second to last picture

[Byron Nelson]

.. I meant the last picture, not second to last.

[Byron Nelson]

Hello Francois,

I have a 1920 x 1080 video with fisheye from an action camera. I want to correct the fisheye and output a rectangular video that is just the un-distorted portion of the fisheye-corrected video.

So, I have this video that I want corrected..

so that the final video looks like this…

I loaded the original 1080p video, then corrected it, and used the corrected image to determine the width and height of the final video that I would need (that needed to grab the rectangle in the original post). It was 1550 x 720 .

I set my project to those dimensions.

Next, I loaded the 1920×1080 clip. Notice how the clip is not scaled to fit into the project. The project simply works as a window on to larger image.

So that when I apply the correction to the video, it scales down and fits my project window…

Then, I can export a 1550 x 720 undistorted (relatively) video.

best,
Byron