If you really must have a 4:3 master, then the Vegas step may work better.įor chroma key footage, you will get better results with Matrox codec, so you were right to capture that way rather than 1394 Normally, I have an HD to SD workflow that works within RT.X2, but that stays widescreen. You could do this in a Matrox HD project, Export to Matrox avi when done, then scale/crop that down in Vegas, then render DVD from resulting SD avi. I understand that you have 20 hours of footage to edit down.
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The Matrox HD codec may not work on machines without the Matrox hardware. Is Vegas on the same machine as RT.X2? I've never had a problem opening Matrox clips in Vegas 8, on the Matrox machine. Pre-rendering down-converted in Vegas would be quite a waist of time and space since I have about 20hs of footage which need to be processed into a single DVD, but in case I decide to go that way, I tried opening the Matrox captured avi's (through component in Premiere, I need to chroma key these videos so I went for the best color resolution, and I understand that is the way, right?) and Vegas couldn't read these files. I will try what you suggest and see what results I get. You will be very happy with the results that can then be worked on in RT.X2 in realtime.Īutumn, thank you very much for such a fast answer. I should clarify - if you still have Vegas on your machine, I would seriously use it for the HD 16:9 to SD 4:3 conversion, and "Render As" and choose AVI, then specify the Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame codec. Maybe you will get better results with PAL, I've only tried NTSC before. With Adobe, not so clear, seems to be a field issue with the scaling.Īnother option would be to just import the HDV clip with Scale to Frame enabled, then Scale up to 133%, I'd say try both methods and see what looks better to you. I also use Sony Vegas on occasion, and with the above method, get very clean downscaled video in Vegas, which can then be exported to the Matrox codec for use with RT.X2. I used the word "technically" because I'm not happy with the results Adobe provides. You mentioned just cropping off the sides, but you can of course use the X and Y adjustments in Motion effect to pan left and right, using keyframes, if you need to keep the subject in frame. Next, use Adobe Motion effect to Scale the video down to where it just fills the 4:3 screen.
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The HDV clip will then have a red line over it (requiring rendering) and you will only see the center of the image, the PAL-sized portion of the larger HD frame. Technically, the proper way would be to import the HDV clip into the SD project with "Scale to Frame" disabled in Preferences. Posted: Sat 11:25 am Post subject: Re: HD to SD - Crop 16:9 to 4:3 Workflow The final usage of the sequence will be a MPEG-2 PAL DVD made with encore.
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What I would like to know is what workflow should I follow to edit HDV video in a PAL SD Standard Sequence (NO Widescreen), so that the right and left part of the frame is discarded (no letterbox or aspect ratio change, but cropping the edges), and that full image quality is retained (very important!).
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So far I was working with Sony Vegas 9, but I've made the move to Premiere CS4 and Matrox RT.X2.
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Posted: Sat 10:35 am Post subject: HD to SD - Crop 16:9 to 4:3 Workflow Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Matrox RTX2 User Forum :: View topic - HD to SD - Crop 16:9 to 4:3 Workflow