Why is Rendered Image Squeezed in Sony Vegas 13?

[László Kovács]

Hi,

Just a shoot in the dark:
Event pan/crop stretch and maintain aspect options also can do squeeze if used in that way.

Otherwise please give some more (exact) information on
-project properties
-source media properties
-render settings

Best regards

László Kovács

[Dave Croonprince]

Hi Laszlo,

Thanks for your response. The project settings are:

Template: 1920 x 1080
Field order – None (progressive scan)
Output rotation: original
Frame rate: 59.940 (Double NTSC)
Pixel format: 8-bit
Full-resolution rendering quality – Good
Motion blur type: Gaussian
Deinterlace method: Blend fields
“Adjust source media to better match project or render sttings” is checked

Render settings are:

MPEG-2
Program Stream NTSC Widescreen
Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox)
Output type – DVD
width – 720
Height – 480
Frame rate: 29,970
Aspect ratio: 16:9
I-frames – 15
B-frames – 2
Video rendering quality – Best

[László Kovács]

Hi,

That looks fine.
What media do you use in that project? (Media properties?)
Is there some pan/crop applied to it?

Best regards

László Kovács

[Dave Croonprince]

The video is mp4, 1080 shot on a Panasonic HC x1000. In the editing I had applied some pan/crop to certain clips but this has never affected the render in other projects. They had the same media and settings but they weren’t squeezed with the render. Last night I just dragged the edited project file into a new time line in Sony Vegas and tried rendering it that way – and it worked ok. No squeezed image. So – not sure how, but it worked.

[László Kovács]

If I understood correctly, you just nested the squeezing project into a new project, and then the weird squeezing disappeared?
If that’s the case, I suspect you just hit a bug in Vegas, because it should look exactly the same…

Best regards

László Kovács

[Dave Croonprince]

Yes exactly. And I even tested it with other clips and no squeezing so I guess there was a glitch with that particular project. Thanks again for helping out!

[George Dean]

dave croonprince @ “The video is mp4, 1080 shot on a Panasonic HC x1000. In the editing I had applied some pan/crop to certain clips but this has never affected the render in other projects. They had the same media and settings but they weren’t squeezed with the render. Last night I just dragged the edited project file into a new time line in Sony Vegas and tried rendering it that way – and it worked ok. No squeezed image. So – not sure how, but it worked.”

Hi Dave,

In the past I had a project that was doing odd things. I open the project, selected everything in the project, then Ctrl+C to copy all the tracks and events. Then I started another occurrence of Vegas Pro, then Ctrl+V to paste, then saved it with a different project name and everything worked fine and I had my original editing back.

Maybe that is what you did with your post above.

Best Regards…….George

[Dave Croonprince]

Thanks George. Dragging the project file into the time line (as opposed to “opening” it) seemed to do the trick. Glitches happen!

[Randy Kahn]

I had the same issue (or similar)..
When I drag or include a pre-rendered video, and then change aspect ratio of this imported clip (by Sony Vegas of course), the change does not get reflected in the new rendered video (with the old one that I imported and the existing one in the new project)..
The Old video rendered as if I did not make any changes in the Pan & Crop to the pre-rendered clip I brought in (to fill out the screen), it was squeezed in.
I was able to fix it by checking the box in the “Render As” dialog box, at the bottom, check th checkbox to “Stretch video to output frame size (Do not letterbox)” in my situation. Fixed it !