Bob Peterson
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No, for my suggestion, you would choose the output size within project properties which is 720 x 480. Then, within the pan/crop window, you would right click on the image in the pan/crop screen and choose the setting of “Match Output Aspect”. That would tell Vegas that it should limit the HD screen size to what is specified for project output which is 720 x 480.
Does that mean that you won’t be able to see the full HD image? The answer is yes. You can pan the image, but you will be unable to see the full HD image all at once on your screen. If you need the full HD image to be visible, then my suggestion won’t help. My answer was premised on the statement that you are outputting to DVD. The only way that I know of to output full HD to DVD is to letter box the HD image. That means you will have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen because the HD image aspect ratio cannot be displayed full screen within the DVD standard. My understanding is that DVDs display 720 x 480. Even widescreen is limited to those dimensions.
Vegas will letterbox the HD video if necessary to make it fit. You don’t need to make adjustments for that to happen.
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If I were you, I would check into CS6. The last time I checked, Amazon was still selling CS6. When I got it, I got the smallest package that included Photoshop. It saves paying $10/month forever, and there may be a competitor to Adobe if the time comes when you need something more than CS6.
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I used to do this on a regular basis. For your HD source video, did you set pan/crop to use the match output aspect so that the HD image is cropped to an SD size? If you have already done this, then my comment won’t help. If you have not done this, then you should. When you do, you can select the portion of the SD screen that you want to include so that you get the best possible image. In my experience, the quality of the HD video used in this way will exceed the quality of the SD video. That assumes, of course, that both the HD and SD are at comparable quality levels to begin with.
When you render, as others have said, Vegas will take care of the details. That should not be too hard since it is seeing, essentially, two SD images.
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Oops! Wrong thread.
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I would use Color Curves to remove a reddish caste. To do that, very slightly increase the colors blue and green. Make the increase in both colors at the center point of the curve. Do not adjust the end points since color fades away as you approach black or white (i.e. the curve end points). Blue and green mix to produce the color cyan. Cyan reduces the color red. So that increasing blue and green makes the color less red. However, the increases also brighten the image somewhat. To offset the increase in brightness, reduce the color red in the same place and by the same amount. I suspect that the adjustment needed will be fairly small.
You select colors by using the “Channel” in the Color Curve screen. The default is RGB, but you can also select red, green, or blue.
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Oops! Sorry. Wrong thread. This is my confusion night!
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Sorry, but that still does not rise to the level of “BEWARE”. Come on! Have you ever heard the acronym KIS? I was tempted, but I resisted the second “S”. 😉
BTW, if the files have already been renamed, the original question is moot.
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It gets worse John. Let’s suppose you begin reorganizing your shots so they are more logically grouped. It’s probably impossible to detect duplicate names in a series of directories, so, when you move images from directory A and B to C, image IMG0001 on directory A and image IMG0001 on directory B both get moved to directory C. Ouch! Fortunately, Windows has now gotten smart enough to tell you there is a collision, but there was a time when it did not. I’m sure I lost images that way. Even so, it is still a mess because now you can’t move the images unless you first rename the offenders.
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Yea, that is precisely what happens which I think is what Paul wanted. Every camera that I’ve seen, both stills and video, provide very little information in a file name. It may be a name plus clip 1, clip 2, etc., or a meaningless number. So, my suggestion is to give a group of images a meaningful name like place and/or date plus a sequence number which preserves the original sequence of the images.
I don’t know why that merits a “Beware”.
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Point taken. I see what you mean, and I just read Brad’s response that he needs HD.