[John Gregoriades]

Sorry, I did not explain very well. The ratio of width to height of a picture is what I meant. 720 divided by 480 = 1.5
I get the original at 640×424, which can then properly fill the screen because it is the same ratio as 720×480. No problem there.
But… the Display above the timeline is taller than the standard ratio, i.e. it is not “720×480” even though the program is set up for this figure. It is 1.36, for example 741×543, or 515×378, or 756×553, all the same, strange 1.36 ratio.
This leaves letterboxing at top and bottom. You can’t stretch to fit, because it distorts faces. The output is also at this strange width-to-height ratio.
Something is wrong with the program?: I set it for “720×480” NTSC yet it works at an equivalent (keeping the 720 figure) at 720×527. It’s too tall!
I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Thank you,
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Hoho, love a man with a sense of humor!
Happy Holidays!
john

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Many thanks, gentlemen.
You pointed out exactly what I was doing wrong.
(I did try the NTSC-DVD as well as the NTSC-MPEG-2 settings and they both worked OK, in making a DVD disk using Windows DVD maker. I could not tell the difference. Is there any?)

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you, Dave.
I am leery of “refurbished” but if the price gap is big….
Where do you recommend buying such items? (Didn’t DELL buy out Alienware?)
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Many thanks, James. I would have a hard time guessing this. It worked just fine, of course.

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Many thanks, John. Your response was very imformative and to the point, now I know what to do.
John

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Thanks for expounding on the “mess.” Unfortunately the specs for the still cameras are not detailed enough to ensure what exactly is their “packaging.”
Here is a thought for Sony/Vegas: Why not turn it around and instead of hand-wringing, why not provide a list of say two dozen top still cameras whose video output works with Vegas (Sony first, of course!) and/or provide a list of these “converter software” that may make them compatible (without loss of quality) with the free software on top of the list, of course.
(Unless Sony/Vegas is “behind” on compatitibility, compared to competing products.)
In January I was in Florida, and to video an event this company had 4 or 5 “Red” brand videocams, two semipro Sony vidcams, and a couple of Nikon DSLRs with Zoom lenses. But most of us (like me) had a Canon SX10iS superzoom still cam (whose video worked fine with Vegas 9). Vegas needs to look after us, too.

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

Isn’t it frustrating? I recently edited a friend’s HD video, shot from a camcorder (can’t remember the brand/model, but it had a built-in memory chip; no tape, no disk, no HD) using Vegas 9. It rendered OK, but on the Vegas preview window it was very bad, stuttery and next to useless for editing.
p.s. that’s a pretty slick presentation, side by side.

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Consumers are plagued with “proprietary” products all the time (a good example are the various batteries for cameras – not one is compatible physically and probably voltage & working amperage – wise with another.)
However: I tried Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 with the following (non Hi-def) video files, and it accepted them just fine:
xxxx.wmv “Windows Media Video File”
xxxx.MOV “Quick Time Movie”
xxxx.mp4 “MP4 Video File”
xxxx.AVI “AVI Video File”
(The quotes indicates what Vegas said they were.)
(These all came from three different “still” cameras: Two Canons and a Nokia cellphone.)
So to double-check, I guess my question, and your answer, pertained to the Hi-Def only?

John23GR

[John Gregoriades]

I am very sorry to hear the bad news…but is it true that the $60
Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 Suite will not work either???
(Pictures and video is not my life, it’s just a fun lifetime hobby. Traveling and also carrying around a ton of stuff are things of my past. One cam that can do it all is preferable, e.g. Canon SX10is see this 3 minute Vegas-creation:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC3ARITMKsc

John23GR

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