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Sdjeff
September 20, 2007 at 4:51 pm in reply to: 16:9 source to 4:3 viewing

Use Track Motion and lock the aspect ratio of horz to vert (ie if you change the horizontal size the program will automatically compute and change the vertical size to keep the same ratio of hor/vert before and after). Use 640 x ??? I can’t remember right now because I haven’t done a project in a while and I’m at work. Most people that I know still have the fullscreen tv sets. I’ve done quite a few dvds using the track motion method and it seems to work fine.
Sdjeff
April 11, 2007 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Vegas freezes before it starts. Please help.

Any clues? This happened to a friend of mine last night when he tried to install vegas 7 as well. He his running Vista. Vegas will hang up on initalizing direct x. I closed the program not responding window and vegas then loaded ok. Anybody know what’s going on?
Jeff

Jeff
Sdjeff
February 13, 2007 at 4:57 am in reply to: 16:9 vs 4:3 Question

I had the problem of losing the side information of my video shot at 16:9 when played back on 4:3 tv’s. To fix this, I set the “Track Motion” to 640 x 427 (the computer will auto fill in the 427 if you leave the lock aspect ratio on).
Jeff
Sdjeff
December 18, 2006 at 5:02 pm in reply to: 16:9 source to 4:3 viewing

Thanks Mike,
I think that I’ve solved my problem. I leave everything alone until I render the video. I’ve created a custom rendering setting based off of the DVD architect 4:3 setting. It will basically keep the height to width ratio, squeezing the 16:9 video to fit the 4:3 layout. The letterbox borders are larger due to the shrinking of the video. Normally I keep everything 16:9 for my personal projects.

I guess I would need to do a little explaining about what I do. I am a civil engineer for a contractor. Amongst other things, I do a video report of project milestones and events. My videos are more for documenting than creativity. Most of our clients have the fancy update to date technology gadgets in their conference rooms for presentations but the average employee has only access to at a work station with turn of the century equipment (4:3 television monitors with DVD players in this case.) I record the video in 16:9 because it is the future of video, and in the future maybe everyone on my distribution list will have 16:9 capabilities.
Jeff
Sdjeff
December 14, 2006 at 7:27 pm in reply to: Updating Vegas 7a to 7c Install Question

Thank you for the reply and quick response.
Jeff