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Would importing vid on a Mac mess up the aspect ratio?
… if I transferred the video from the Mac to my PC and opened it in Vegas?
I have to import my video on a giant Mac (which I hate) because my laptop doesn’t have firewire. The video looks perfect (16:9, etc) on the Mac, but I copied the video to my PC and it is now squeezed to 4:3, and the picture lags behind the audio.
I assume the Mac automatically puts the video in .MOV (it automatically goes to .AVI when I can use a PC, and I have no issues), so could that be causing the issue? Is there some patch I can use to help alleviate the cross-over issues here?
Thank you!
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I believe you have answered you own question since capturing video on a Mac didn’t retain the correct aspect ratio on a PC. Mac’s are proprietary and don’t play well with others. Fortunately the fix is simple… don’t use a Mac to capture your video if you plan to edit it on a PC.
As for the already captured footage, just right-click the event and go to the video properties and on the Media tab tell Vegas what the correct aspect is and it should compensate for it and display the video correctly.
~jr
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Depends on the format of the source video, but if you are getting the files into Vegas, then I assume you are really good to go. If the aspect is wrong, manually telling Vegas the correct ratio is the solution (as John says) and there’s no loss in quality or anything.
If you are capturing SD 16:9 DV, you might get .mov or you might get .dv. The MOV files with NTSC will work fine in Vegas, but If the footage is HD something or other, there’ s a good change it just won’t work on a Windows machine, since QuickTime is crippled on that platform and simply doesn’t have many of the codecs you might need, not even if you wanted to give Mr. Jobs $1,000 for them. Sigh.
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Thank you, both! I was able to right-click into the Media tab and fix the aspect ratio. (Learn tiny new tricks every day!)
As for importing on Mac, unfortunately I have no choice in the matter. But fortunately, now I know that the .DV files the Macs import it as are still compatible with my computer, granted I force it.
Although, since I’m shooting on a Mini-DV camera, why is it that when I import on a PC, it’s strictly .AVI, with no .DV label anywhere, but when I import on Mac, it actually says .DV? Hm.
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> why is it that when I import on a PC, it’s strictly .AVI, with no .DV label anywhere, but when I import on Mac, it actually says .DV? Hm.
AVI is the native container on Windows and MOV is the native container on Mac OS. The two operating systems just chose different ways of handling things. I have no idea why Apple invented .DV instead of just using MOV? It could be unique to the program you are using on the Mac to do the capture. You might want to ask on a Mac forum. As long as it works, it shouldn’t matter.
~jr
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Not to be a stick in the mud. But I just rendered this video project. And there was audio, but no matter what file/codec I rendered it as, there was no picture at all. Could these DV files just not be compatible? Or am I missing a codec/patch?
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> Could these DV files just not be compatible?
Well… it’s Mac… everything it does is incompatible with everything else in the computer industry by design. 😉
Maybe you can convert them to MOV files on the Mac. You shouldn’t have any problems editing DV in a MOV file in Vegas.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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