Help with making videos fit screen.
I notice a lot of you newer people have issues with making your final edits fit the screen and I don't know about the rest of the folks here, but that is one thing that truly irritates me and deters me from watching videos so I want to share with you a few techniques that may help you.
If anyone else has suggestions/tips/other methods then please post them here as well, but i'm just going to post a few methods.
1. Video Tags
Sometimes when your video doesn't fit the screen, you can fix it without having to go through your editor settings and re-rendering the whole thing over again, although this does cause a small lose of quality from your video.
Instructions
Go to the 'Edit Video' options for the video you want fixed and go to the tags section then add this to the end of it, minus the quotation marks of course.
'yt:stretch=16:9 yt:crop=16:9'
now if that doesn't work, I would suggest putting this instead
'yt:stretch=4:3 yt:crop=16:9'.
I've only used those two methods for certain videos, but both have worked so that's why I only have those two listed.
2. Sony Vegas Event Pan/Cropping
I will post screenshots with instructions since this might be a bit more confusing for some of you, it isn't too hard and it really helps you make the video fit, even if all your problem is the little black bars on top and bottom. My screenshots will consist of skate 2 clips, but the same method works for 3 so don't worry about that.
Instructions
1. When your clips are in the timeline, right click one of them and go to 'Video Event Pan/Crop'
http://i51.tinypic.com/fvijvo.jpg
2. When the window pops up, right click over the clip and 'Match Output Aspect'
http://i54.tinypic.com/2w3q2b7.jpg
Note: With skate 2 clips, you will only have to press match output aspect once for the clip to fit, but with skate 3 clips, you will have to click match output aspect, then match source aspect then match output aspect once again and then your skate 3 clip will fit.
Also,
If your properties for the project isn't set for what the resolution you want the final product to be in isn't right, (Such as you want it to be 720p, but you have the properties set up for 480p) I can't guarantee using the match output source method is going to make it fit properly, but you can work around this by manualing increasing/decreasing the frame size until it looks like the clip fits.
I will update this if anyone else helps since these are the only methods I can recall that work, for me, and I would like to help others make their videos fit.
If you ask for help with another editor, I cannot help you because I do not have any experience with them. Hopefully someone else can help you though.
