D. Eric franks
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You’ve made it 90% of the way to where you need to go: Use the Track Motion tool to move your cropped video where ever you want.
This applies to the whole track, so you’ll need to use multiple tracks or learn how to keyframe the position, but it’s all very doable.
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Does the Lab really want widescreen? Or do they want 4:3 letterboxed?
The 486×720 1.21 is a little odd. I’m also unclear: If you are masking (letterboxing top and bottom?) 16:9 footage to fit in a 4:3 frame, then this isn’t widescreen and therefore shouldn’t use a 1.21 PAR (pixel aspect ratio). In other words, it sounds like you are stretching a 4:3 project to 16:9.
If they 4:3 (my guess), I think you want to do this:
(1) Your project should be 4:3, 720×486, 0.919 PAR (and I’d be tempted to do 720×480 anyhow). Your 16:9 HDV footage will fill the screen left/right, leaving a letterbox top and bottom. Your integrated DV footage will simply fill the screen, but you drop a mask on it so it looks like the HDV footage.
(2) Output 4:3, 720×486, 0.919 PAR (and, again, I’d be more comfortable with 720×480). QuickTime, Animation codec.Ugh. Mixing screen aspect with PAR always makes my head spin!
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My background is technical, so the extent of my knowledge on chromatic aberration is limited to optics, but if photo editing apps can fix it, the Premiere/After Effects should be able to fix it, since many/most/all? Photoshop filters are available in those apps as well. Can the example image you posted be corrected in Photoshop?
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Just about anything that can be isolated can be fixed, but I can’t think of a way to fix something as complex as chromatic aberration. Still, you never know: Can you post a screen grab here of what you are trying to fix? I know the folks here love a good challenge.
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That’s a snap to fix: press F8 on your keyboard.
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Click the “Make Compositing Child” button on tracks 2 and 3.
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I see: Does the source MTS file come in normally with 5.1 channels? That’ll at least narrow the problem down to “Doesn’t work at all” vs. “It’s a proxy/replace file issue.”
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What is the source high-res clip? I know I’ve seen all kinds of odd audio-channel things happen with DVD-Video disc ripped MPEG-2 files, including (but not limited to): stereo being mixed up with 5.1, language tracks being interpreted as 5.1, 5.1 tracks being buried under other tracks, hundreds of millisecond sync issues, etc.. It varies depending on the ripped disc, so part of the issue might be Vegas, but part is certainly how the discs were created (some of the strangest problems have been with really old DVDs or discs from Bollywood musicals!)
Sorry I don’t have a better answer, but let us know the source and someone may have a more specific answer.
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You figured it out: the audio levels or waveform is the “peaks” Vegas is drawing, converting the audio information into a visual record of the loudness. It’s saved to a special SFK file (*.sfk) in the media’s directory. They are small and you can ignore them – or delete them and rebuild them later, no worries.
View > Rebuild Audio Peaks (Shift+F5)
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I’d switch to 873×480 capture resolution if you want to go out to widescreen DVD-Video disc. Not that I think it will solve your problem, but it will fix a distortion issue you are certainly getting.
But I’m baffled as to what could be going on. You are capturing in Camtasia and immediately saving to AVI using the TechSmith codec, right? That’s definitely the fastest workflow.
Just a test: Try rendering out to a lossless format, say AVI-Uncompressed or QuickTime-Animation codec. Render out to identical frame size/PAR (720×480 square or whatever). I have NO idea why this would work, but by changing those two variables (square pixel output and the codec) something magic might happen.