Aspect ratio not maintained on overlays

Doug Sundquist · Post by **Doug Sundquist** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:56 pm

Here's an interesting problem - I'm working with widescreen video from my camcorder. I've got VS set to 16:9. Main video is perfectly displayed in edit and preview and renders correctly in 16:9 widescreen. I am also using widescreen clips for picture-in-picture overlays and those appear correctly in edit and preview, but when I render the movie those overlays only are getting converted back into 4:3. Also, they're not staying within the 16:9 widescreen video behind it (i.e. they're falling over into the letterbox). Same thing seems to be happening with my title. I'm hoping I just have some setting that's incorrect. Ideas?
Thanks
Doug

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:12 pm

Have you tried right-clicking on the overlay video/image in Preview window and from the menu selecting Keep Aspect Ratio?

Doug Sundquist · Post by **Doug Sundquist** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:16 pm

OK, here's an update for what I've found so far. When rendered selecting "NTSC DV (16:9)" which creates an AVI it's OK. When rendered using "NTSC MPEG2" it fails as I described.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:26 pm

OK, and when you render the correct aspect DV to mpeg-2, is the correct aspect maintained?

Doug Sundquist · Post by **Doug Sundquist** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:08 pm

Yes that works correctly but I would expect that since the overlays are correct in the DV .AVI to start with.

jlally · Post by **jlally** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:36 am

Hi,

I am sure I had the same problem once. Whenever I would preview in VS 11.5 plus, everything would look perfect but if I output a file, the overlay aspect ratio would be incorrect.

In my case, I had a mix of 4:3 ratio and 16:9 in various places in VS. e.g File - Project properties, File - preferences, smart proxy etc.

Basically, I went through every property setting in VS to make sure I had 16:9 everywhere and the problem disappeared.

Jag