Configuring uncompressed 16:9 in Vegas

[skull950]

Even though the aspect is set at 1.2 in the Uncompressed render window setup, it still saves it as 4:3. The only way I can work in Vegas using 16:9 Uncompressed format is to set a custom frame size of 853x480.

I am also having the same problem using the Huffy codec, not being able to render in 16:9.

I have been using DV NTSC WIDESCREEN format, which works fine. But after doing a few test using the SMPTE color bars, I notice some color bleeding with this codec and want to switch to Uncompressed.

Is there another way to do this?

[hrlslcbr]

'Render' with huffyuv? If you have an anamorpic video (16:9), it will look compressed until you convert it to a format where you can set Pixel Aspect Ratio flags (like MPEG-2). If you want to convert it to DVD format, you have to select the aspect ratio the final encoded video will have in your encoder. If you watch it on a soft/hardware DVD player, the video will look ok. So leave your video at 720x480, don't change it to 853x480.

[skull950]

In Vegas you can set the pixel aspect ratio of the project so it will display in it's correct aspect inside Vegas. If you render to an AVI file you will see 16:9 aspect when you play it with Windows Media Player.

The built-in DV codec has a widescreen option that works fine. You can render to AVI in 16:9 format and it plays correct in WMP.

If I set everything as 4:3 aspect and try to render footage that was shot in 16:9 with Huffy or uncompressed, it will not display correctly in WMP.

I can set custom frame size to 853x480 using uncompressed format and then use TMPGEnc to render an MPEG2 in correct 16:9 aspect. If I try this with Huffy, it distorts badly.

[hrlslcbr]

You can't encode a 853x480 frame size to a DVD compliant MPEG-2 file without converting it to 720x480. An avi file with huffyuv will not be displayed correctly in WMP or any other player that doesn't let you select custom aspect ratios for watching the video (zoom player, media player classic, etc). If your final format will be DVD, leave the frame size to 720x480 and set the correct aspect ratio flags to 'tell' the player that the video has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and it will stretch it. That's how all DVD's work.

[skull950]

I know it requires 720x480, I was just saying that I can save uncompressed as 853x480 and then use TMPGEnc to convert it to 720x480 MPEG2 if I have to. But I would prefer to save it the normal way of 16:9 DV 720x480, but I can't figure out how.

If I use the Vegas DV codec, it will save the 16:9 footage as a 16:9 AVI in 720x480 format. Uncompressed won't do this, neither will Huffy.

If I leave the frame size at 720x480 and try to save the 16:9 footage as uncompressed AVI, it will squeze it down horizontally more and more with each render until I end up with a video that looks like it's 1x480.

Uncompressed and Huffy work fine in Vegas with 4:3, but not 16:9, unless someone knows how?

[skull950]

I figured it out what I was doing wrong. I can't just drop the 16:9 file on the timeline and set the project properties to 4:3. Even though it does change the 16:9 to 4:3, uncompressed won't work.

The fix was to change the 16:9 file to 4:3 BEFORE I put on the timeline. The trade off is I can't view the 16:9 footage when editing as 16:9, it looks like anomorphic 4:3, but at least it is being saved uncompressed and not squezing it any further than 4:3.