sony vegas project size

[chidoug]

I have sony vegas movie studio platinum 8.0. Which is completely new to me.

I have four 42” flat that I will be broadcasting on. Resolution is 848x480.

The problem I’m having is taking the b roll footage and getting it to cover that area. I get a boarder on the left and right side. This continue to happen after going into the properties changing the project size to 848x480.

Any suggestions?

[guns1inger]

What are you playing back from ?

848 x 480 is effectively the resolution of 16:9 NTSC DVD on playback. If yu source aspect ratio is less than 1.778 : 1 then you will have to resize or crop to get rid of pillarboxing.

What is your source footage ? Is it 16:9 or 4:3 ?

[chidoug]

i believe i got it. not sure which is the best yet.
one is using the track motion to zoom in. another option is to un-check the Maintain aspect ratio, that or or changing the alpha channel to 1.2121 (video properties)

[guns1inger]

How you do it correctly is determined by your source footage and your output needs.

What is your source ?

What are you playing back from ?

[edDV]

chidoug -- hint

Normally you aquire and render to 720x480 DVD whether 4:3 or 16:9.

Then, when you play back the TV scales to 848x480 if that is your TV's native resolution.