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December 19th, 2008, 03:08 AM
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Major Player
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cropping 16:9 to 4:3 without letterbox
Hi people
This is rather a basic question but I can't seem to do it right. I need to crop a widescreen video to regular 4:3 in Vegas. The video that I'm working with is a Mpeg-2 file 720x480, pixel aspect ratio of 0.889 and standard NTSC 29.970fps I need to render this to a 4:3 by cropping off the left and right edges, not by letterboxing. How?
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December 19th, 2008, 07:16 AM
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Regular Crew
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Open a 4x3 Project.
Open Event Pan/Crop. Right click on your 16x9 clip and select "Match Output Aspect" |
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December 19th, 2008, 08:59 AM
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Inner Circle
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NTSC DV is 0.9091, NTSC widescreen is 1.2121, PAL DV is 1.0926 and PAL widescreen is 1.4568. If you're rendering this to NTSC, you should just be able to drop it on a Vegas timeline without needing to crop it. |
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December 20th, 2008, 04:06 PM
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Major Player
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I haven't done this in a long time, but it's fully possible to not only crop the 16:9 to 4:3 (cropping sides), but with pan/zoom, you can pretty easily use keyframes to do a real "pan and scan" approach (where you move the 4x3 crop around left to right wherever you want it for that particular scene). |
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December 20th, 2008, 05:07 PM
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Regular Crew
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Just out of curiosity Ali, would these just happen to be your video/audio specs ?
--- Video Information --- Video Codec MPEG2 Frame Width (pixels): 720 Frame Height (pixels): 480 Storage Aspect Ratio("SAR")" 1.500 Pixel Aspect Ratio ("PAR"): 0.889 Display Aspect Ratio ("DAR"): 1.333 Frames Per Second: 29.970 Video Bitrate (kbps): 8000 Broadcast standard: NTSC --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec AC3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz): 48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps): 192 Audio Bitrate Type CBR Audio Channel Count 2 |
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December 20th, 2008, 09:29 PM
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Major Player
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720 x 480 is already 4 x 3 SD. It sounds like you have a letterbox downconversion on SD. You could enlarge your image until the letterbox is gone and the right and left edges are pushed off of the screen but you would probably loose some image quality.
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December 21st, 2008, 03:32 AM
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Major Player
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This is called a center cut extraction and done all the time from a HD master. Is your original footage HD?
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