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Widescreen question
These may be questions with obvious answers, but here goes. If I shoot a video with my Sony VX-2100 in 16:9 mode and capture to a project in Vegas set to wide mode and then render to an MPEG 2 DVD Architech wide mode setting, I am assuming that the resulting DVD would play full screen on a wide screen TV, correct? And it would also play on a regular TV with black bars on top and bottom, right?
If I have video that is shot at regular 4:3 setting can I make it 16:9 widescreen by using pan/crop and selecting 16:9 setting? What will this do to the resulting rendered video? Will I lose quality? In new project settings, do I choose wide screen or regular? When rendering, do I choose DVD Architech wide screen mode? Thanks for any direction you can provide.
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Doug,
I cannot answer your question about making a 4:3 shot video into 16:9. But I can tell you my experience with shooting 16:9 with the PD150 (same as the 2000). It is not a true 16:9. Basically it takes and cuts off the top and the bottom of the 4:3 sensors (crops the video). It does not shoot wider. If you then process it through VegasDVDA as widescreen you will get a video that has black bars on both top and the bottom on any television. If you just process it through Vegas as widescreen and then use regular 4:3 settings in DVDA you will get a correct picture on a widescreen TV. That is, it will fill the screen and have no distortion.
Hope this is of some help!
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