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Posted by JBS on 08/30/06 21:37
"Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
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> JBS wrote:
>> "JBS" <JBS@nzlgroup.org> wrote in message
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>>> I have a similar situation where a friend's video was taken using the
>>> movie function of a digital still camera, with the camera held
>>> vertically, instead of horizontally. In Photoshop, for a still
>>> image, you can rotate the canvas 90 degrees CW to correct this
>>> situation for one still image. But I'm not sure how to do this for a
>>> series of movie pictures using Vegas
>>> 5. Can any Vegas users help with this? Thanks for your help.
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>> I have now found the answer. With Vegas, you select the video to be
>> rotated, then under the "Tools" menu, select "Video", "Video Event",
>> "Pan/Crop", then under the heading of "Rotation", you adjust the
>> "angle" to suit. Of course, as a result of doing this, you end up
>> with black bars on the left and right sides of the picture, but at
>> least it's the right way up! I would recommend to people who use the
>> video function of digital still cameras to keep the camera in the
>> horizontal position when shooting, even though it may, on occasions,
>> be tempting to tilt the camera vertically. Now I must research how I
>> could get rid of the black bars, perhaps zoom in on the affected
>> pictures?
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>
> You can use the Pan/Crop window to do the zooming in as well. Keep in
> mind
> that, not only will you lose image information from the top and bottom
> (120
> pixels each), you will also lose detail as you're zooming in on something
> that is supposed to have a fixed pixel size of 720 x 480 pixels (NTSC) or
> 720 x 576 (PAL).
Thanks Mike, I managed to reduce to some extent the width of the black bars
on each side of the picture, the Pan / Crop feature of Vegas is certainly
very good. This movie was taken on a Nikon Coolpix S5 digital camera, and
although it was recorded in Apple format, Vegas recognized the format and I
was able to edit it without any problems. I am quite impressed with the
capabilities of Vegas.
Regards, Jim
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