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Widescreen
I just got a new JVC digital camcorder. And whenever I put a video on the computer, it’s in a very tight format, not 16:9 like it was filmed. When you make the video widescreen on Vegas, does it become anamorphic when put onto a DVD?
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Did you change your Vegas project settings to widescreen? Also make sure the Preview Window is set to Simulate Device Aspect Ratio. Not having these two set will lead to squished video. It should look in the Vegas preview exactly as it will look on the DVD if you have your project set correctly.
~jr
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I know how to make the project widescreen, my question was how to make the image anamorphic, so that it will fit a 16:9 TV.
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4:3 SD is not anamorphic and there is no way to make it anamorphic unless you buy an anamorphic lens and go re-shoot it. If you want to make something widescreen that was not shot in widescreen your only option is to crop the 4:3 to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
~jr
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What if the video was shot in widescreen? I’ve made it work on Movie Maker, which doesn’t seem to work on my new computer. But anyway, my new camera shoots in 16:9 and I want to know how to make it anamorphic on Vegas, because when I put the videos on the computer, they become cropped.
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Does your camera shoot true 16:9 widescreen or does it crop 4:3 to 16:9? Without seeing what you are seeing it is hard to tell you what to do. There are a number of cameras that have a 16:9 mode that is NOT really 16:9. It’s 4:3 with letterboxing (i.e., black bars on top and bottom) burned into a 4:3 image. Without knowing if your camera is true 16:9 or fake 16:9 it’s hard to say what to do. What is the model number of your JVC camera?
If your project is set to widescreen and your preview is set to simulate the device aspect and your video is not filling the screen, check the properties on the Media tab and see what the Pixel aspect ratio is set to. It should be 1.2121 for DV Widescreen and 1.3333 for HDV widescreen. If it is not one of those two, then that’s the problem. Change it to what it should be and see if that helps.
~jr
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It shoots in 16:9, but when I put the videos onto the computer it crops it down terribly, so I have to put it back into widescreen on the video editor.
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Does anyone know how to get a JVC Everio camcorder to transfer videos shot in 16:9 onto a computer in the original format. And if not, when I make the video widescreen on Sony Vegas, how do I make it anamorphic for 16:9 televisions?
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Hi Jesse,
I looked at the specs on the JVC site and all it says is “16:9 Fullscreen”. I have no idea what they mean by that statement. This is why I asked if it shoots true 16:9 or if it adds black bars to a 4:3 frame. Without knowing this it’s hard to help you.
What are you seeing when you say:
It shoots in 16:9, but when I put the videos onto the computer it crops it down terribly, so I have to put it back into widescreen on the video editor.
Are there black bars on the top and bottom? or is the image squashed vertically? What Vegas project template are you using?
If there are black bars at the top and bottom then your camera does not shoot true 16:9, it just crops a 4:3 frame to 16:9. This means you don’t really have 16:9. You have 4:3 with black bars. In order to fix this in Vegas you will have to crop all of the media to remove the black bars.
If the image is squashed vertically, and fills the frame top to bottom, then you have anamorphic 16:9 and should make sure that Vegas as set the media to a pixel aspect ratio to 1.2121 in the media properties.
Either way you should use the DV Widescreen project template.
~jr
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There’s no black bars on the LCD on the camera, and when I put the video onto the computer it’s squashed vertically so it’s all compacted into a rectangle like format, going up and down instead of left to right.
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> I put the video onto the computer it’s squashed vertically
OK, now we’re getting somewhere. 😉
(1) Set your Vegas project (Alt+Enter) to DV Widescreen.
(2) Right-click on the Preview window and select Simulate Device Aspect
(3) Right-click on the media in the Project Media window and select Properties. On the Media tab set the Pixel aspect ratio: to 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen).
This should unsquish your video. If you use PAL instead of NTSC then, of couse, substitute the NTSC settings in my instructions for PAL. (PAL Widescreen is PAR 1.4568)
That should fix it (he says with fingers crossed)
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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