Vegas 5 editing questions...

[dell400sc]

Hey gang,

I've searched forums but to no avail. I using my mini-DV Canon recording in 16:9. I upload via Vegas 5 and have two questions.

1. With "Enable DV Device control" on I can start/stop capture and it saves each clip as a sequence, or a least it should but it's not. For example, if I record 1 min of video and press the record button 4 times then on the tape there are two clips. Now when Vegas begins to capture I should get two clips saved; however, I actually get two clips of both clips together. Essentially I saving twice the ammount of footage. Any thought?

2. Since I recorded 16:9 and then edit with Vegas 5 and resave as NTSC-DV avi and then encode with TMPGenc Xpress, the video looks a bit squished. But when I edit and then save as NTSC-DV wide screen and then encode to DVD the video looks perfect. Can someone explain what's going on here?

Thanks,
Lex

[edDV]

1. I never saw anything like that. Just capture straight and choose in and out points later. Or, spec your in/out points in batch mode.

2. 16:9 DV will look horizontally squished when viewed 4:3. Your Vegas project should be specified as 16:9. Please restate the problem.

[dell400sc]

edDV,

As for question 2, re-worded:

2. I film/record in 16:9 mode on my Canon Elura 80. I then use firewire to capture to computer via Sony Vegas 5. Then my goal is to edit a bit (transitions, titles, etc.). I first started saving my edited veggie as just plain NTSC-DV thinking that my source avi was the correct 16:9 format. Then when I used TMPGenc to encode as DVD 16:9 and played on my stand alone DVD player watching on a regular 4:3 NTSC tube TV the picture look really squished (larger than normal black bars on top and bottom of screen). I then saved my edited veggie as NTSC DV wide-screen and that seemed to fix the squished look and the black bars are about half the size top/bottom as before, so I guess I'm doing it right now, or at least I hope.

Thanks,
Lex

[jtoolman2000]

second ? That's because it is not real 16x9 format. Your camera us merely cropping the 4:3 image to make it appear as 16x9 when it is not. Real 16x9 will appear streched verticaly on the raw tape but fills the whole frame. The editor them squizes it to 16:9 making the the "tall: peopl eappear normal. No black bars. You need to process your fake 16:9 as 4:3 and it will look as it was throught the viefinder.

[dell400sc]

Hummm,

jtoolman2000,

As it stands now, I get squished footage when I capture my 16:9 recorded footage and save as NTSC-DV in Vegas and normal footage (still with black bars on my TV, but less black and more footage) when I save as NTSC-DV-Widescreen.

Lex