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widescreen with black sidebars? mpg imports?
Hello,
This is simple I’m certain.
1. I shot some video with an el cheapo HD cam in widescreen mode. When I bring in my footage in a “NTSC DV widescreen” template, the preview shows does not use the full width and there is a vertical black bar on each side of the video. What gives?
2. I’ve had problems with system hangs before when working with mpg files imported into vegas (from cheapo cam) Sony had recommended converting all my clips to AVI and working with those. It worked. only problem is I can’t remember how to do this easily for all my clips. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Gilles
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4 Replies
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You might try a free tool called m4ng. It’s a video converter accepting many formats in and out. You can select a list of files to process in a batch.
Just google “m4ng” and you will find it.
I did not check if it specifically handles mpg and avi, but I think it should.
I use it regularly to encode my videos to Xvid/MP3.
Hope it helps,
Frederic -
1. My guess is that the cheapo HD cam shoots with a 1.333 aspect ration while your project template is only 1.2121
The cure is to open up Pan/Crop on the cheapo clip(s), right-clic kand select “Match Output Aspect”.2. Load the cheapo clips in and drop them on a Vegas timeline.
Turn each one into a region by double-clicking it and pressing ‘R’.
Run the “Batch Render Regions” script and render them to the desired format. -
Right-click the event and go to the Media tab and see what the Pixel Aspect Ratio is. I would bet that the files are being flagged as regular 0.9091 SD. Change it to 1.2121 widescreen and they should display correctly.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Thanks to everyone who piped in.
In my case, John’s solution worked.
Gilles
Gilles
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