Posted by Mike Kujbida on 08/29/06 23:09

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).

Mike

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