[Jaime Uribelarrea]

Oh, wait, I think I found a solution by guesstimating some numbers (I don’t even know how I thought of those calculations).
If I take 1920×1080 footage that was shot with 2x anamorphic lens attached, put it in a 1920×1080 project, and then use these pan/crop settings, I get the result I want: a 2.39:1 frame of video within within a 1920×1080 project.

The settings are:
Width: 1290
Height: 1460
Maintain A.R.: NO
Stretch to fill: YES

Left is original 1920×1080 squeezed footage. Right is stretched, cropped, and resized (height) result, all with one pan/crop setting.

The numbers might be a bit off because I just let the math run wild in my head:

2580 [2.39x 1080] / 3840 [2x 1920] = 0.671875
1920 [project width] x 0.671875 = 1290

1.777 [proj. A.R.] / 2.39 [desired A.R.] = 0.74
1080 [proj. height] / 0.74 [???] = 1459 ~ 1460

[Jaime Uribelarrea]

Older video cards are hard to find here, the ones that are compatible with Vegas+CUDA, so I finally decided not to spend that much money on a 1Gb graphics card that Vegas won’t be able to use.
Instead, I’m going for 16 Gb of RAM.
Thanks for your input.

-J.

[Jaime Uribelarrea]

Hi, similar problem here, I’m starting to feel a little bit slow in the head.
I have some 2x anamorphic footage originally shot at 1920×1080.
I need to stretch horizontally until 3840×1080, and then crop the sides down to 2580×1080 to achieve a 2.39:1 aspect ratio.
I simply cannot find a way to do this without stretching, rendering, importing, and then cropping.
Can I do this with just 1 source 1920×1080 file?
Thanks

[Jaime Uribelarrea]

Makes sense, I think I’ll follow your advice. In any case, I can buy two 8Gb strips in a year or so and replace the two 4Gb I’m getting now.
Thanks again for your reply.

[Jaime Uribelarrea]

Hi,
I decided to post here because I have a similar doubt and I didn’t want to create a whole new post for it.
This guy is building me a PC (Win7, Vegas) from scratch.
The specs that’ll be there for sure are:

Intel Core i7 3770 (3,4GHz – 8Mb)
Motherboard Gigabyte B75-3DH – Sata 3 – USB 3.0 – HDMI
HD 1Tb WD Sata3
8Gb DDR3 1600 Kingston
DVD R/W
Sentey CS1-1410 Plus
Power Source: Shure 600w
SSD 2,5″ 120Gb Kingston SSDNOW V300

Then I have to choose (for $ reasons) between the two following “upgrades.”
Considering that the GPU is more than twice the price of doubling my RAM, what’s better for this configuration and for Sony Vegas (no more than 2D, 2K most likely): more RAM or GPU? (If the prices seem weird it’s because I’m in Argentina and electronics are crazy expensive here).

VGA Asus GT640 1Gb DDR5 u$ 205.-
or
RAM 8Gb DDR3 1600 Kingston u$ 82.-

I’m inclined towards more RAM, but if the improvement will be only marginal, I’d rather spend a few more bucks on the GPU to keep the system fast for as long as possible.

Thanks for your help
Jaime

[Jaime Uribelarrea]

THANK YOU. I had heard something about pre-editing conversion but I never thought that would be the problem. I just assumed FCP was good enough to accept regular mp4 files, and various searches for my symptoms hadn’t resulted in any progress.