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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 08/31/06 02:16
JBS wrote:
> "Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
> news:4ljvodF22rvcU1@individual.net...
>>
>> JBS wrote:
>>> "JBS" <JBS@nzlgroup.org> wrote in message
>>> news:44f4936e$1@clear.net.nz...
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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
Glad it worked out for you Jim.
I've been a Vegas user since version 1.0 (audio only) and remain impressed
with it to this day. There are things about it I'd like to see changed but I
don't think the perfect NLE exists. Or at least not that we can afford :-)
One of the great things about Vegas is that you can drop almost any format
on the timeline and it'll work. Once in a while you may have to buy a codec
(I had to for my Canon still camera video as it turned out to use an MJPEG
codec for it's video clips) but that was only $20. I was playing with my
cellphone recently and Vegas recognized it's video (3gp format, I think)
with noproblems.
BTW, http://www.blue7media.com/vegas/ is a huge collection of Vegas
resources and http://tinyurl.com/knag6 is a listing of excellent newsletters
(pdf format) you can download.
Mike
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