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Comment on Censoring a Person or Object by Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:23:53 +0000

Thanks, Rob! I hadn’t spotted the “Lock Aspect Ratio” button and it does indeed do just what I want .

I seem to need to set “stretch to fill frame” to “Yes”, or otherwise the video produced has black bars at both top/bottom and sides. I don’t quite understand why, as I’m retaining a height of 1080 when I crop.

Thank you so much for your help.

Jeremy

Comment on Censoring a Person or Object by Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:48:06 +0000

Hi, Jeremy! This is a case, I’m afraid, of the interface having two options whose names are too similar.

Check back, and you’ll see that it’s Lock Aspect Ratio, not Maintain Aspect Ratio, that I reference. The Lock Aspect Ratio option is as icon on the far left of the Event Pan/Crop window — looks like a white rectangle with a smaller shaded rectangle and a small arrow in the lower right corner). It controls the actual crop region.

The “Maintain Aspect Ratio” option (under Source), on the other hand, determines how the original source video behaves in the project as a whole.

At any rate, Sony includes a preset that, if I understand you right, does exactly what you want. Near the top of the Event Pan/Crop window, click the dropdown box next to “Preset” and choose 4:3 Standard TV aspect ratio and see if that gets you want you want.
If not, try some of the other presets.

Good luck, write back if you have any questions, and thanks for reading!

Rob

Comment on Censoring a Person or Object by Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:46:28 +0000

I have Movie Studio 9.0 Platinum and I’ve tried to follow the instructions in your (Rob’s) comment of 16/01/09. But even if I set Maintain Aspect Ratio to No and Stretch to Fill Frame to No, the values for Width and Height in the Position window can’t be changed independently: altering one makes an automatic change in the other by the same ratio. Any ideas?

What I’m trying to do is actually rather simpler than you describe. My Sony HF10 produces 16×9 AVCHD footage, but when the shot is of someone standing I often tend to get extraneous material that I need to cut out at the edges. I thought I could just crop it to 4×3 aspect ratio, throwing away one or both sides of the image. But I’m just learning Vegas Movie Studio and I can’t find a way to do it!

Thanks!

Comment on Full-Color DVD Menu Highlights by Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:11:22 +0000

I’m afraid I’m stumped, Daniel. I can reproduce the problem you see, but cannot figure out if this is a) a problem with the way DVD Architect creates the inactive button highlights, b) a problem with the way VLC intreprets those highlights, or c) just a conflict between the two. Nor have I found a solution so far.

I made several projects in DVDA, trying out things to change the outcome — including using the other colors in the color set — but no matter what, VLC seems to only accept “transparent” as valid for inactive items. I also looked all through VLC’s settings to see if there was anything to change this, but nothing helped.

I’d try using another authoring app to mirror the same technique, but I don’t any others that even let the user use highlights on the inactive buttons.

So far, of the players I’ve tried, VLC is the only one that exhibits this behavior, though, if that’s any consolation.

Any other readers out there have a suggestion?

Rob

Comment on Full-Color DVD Menu Highlights by Daniel Gaze

Daniel Gaze — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:43:09 +0000

Hi there Rob, hoping you can help. I followed your tutorial with a dvd menu of my own, and when previewing in dvd architect the trick appears to work. However once I created the dvd to a audio ts/video ts output folder and used dvdshrink to turn into a .iso file, all icons appear when playing through vlc media player. Any ideas?

Comment on Introducing a Change in Color With a Swipe by Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:11:20 +0000

Check the manual / online help for Transition Progress Envelopes. These give you greater control over transitions. You should be able to do exactly what you want by setting points where each word is sung and then moving the progress of the transition at those points so the color changes when you want it to.

Comment on No More Gutters in Your Slideshows by Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:30 +0000

Depends on where I’m going with the file. For Youtube, I generally output the highest quality that makes sense for the project — usually DV AVI — and let Youtube do its own compression. Most of the time, Youtube is going to recompress to its liking anyhow. If you need to save space, try WMV with a bitrate around 1Mbps. Unless you’re outputting in HD, then you will probably want a higher bitrate.

Comment on Changing a Color by Rob Strobbe

Rob Strobbe — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:01:36 +0000

If you mean the one used in this tutorial, it’s included in Sony Vegas Pro.

Comment on Changing a Color by sudaca

sudaca — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:35:27 +0000

where i can download color corrector…FREE

Comment on No More Gutters in Your Slideshows by james

james — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:21:42 +0000

great tips. thanks!
i just had a question…
how are you rendering this?
whenever i try and render anything, my transitions are not good. they are jittery and pixelated, no matter what format i render as.
thanks.