Aspect Ratio?

[Incindre]

Hello all, Long time no see!

I am in the process of making two short films and the problem with my last one was aspect ratios.
I have discovered how to change the project in vegas to PAL DV Widescreen 720x576 which is a good widescreen format and the aspect ratio is 1.4568 PAL DV Widescreen.
I also have set the camera I am going to use to film in Widescreen but the aspect ratio is 16:9. Will this clash with the aspect ratio in the vegas project? I want to take footage off the camera and small sections SFX footage from After Effects and stick it all together in Vegas and have everything have the same widescreen aspect ratio without variation.

Is there a way to go about making sure everything looks ok?

Also, how can I choose where After Effects renders the footage to? It goes somewhere random at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated!

Incindre

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[dr lameos]

Hello all, Long time no see!

I am in the process of making two short films and the problem with my last one was aspect ratios.
I have discovered how to change the project in vegas to PAL DV Widescreen 720x576 which is a good widescreen format and the aspect ratio is 1.4568 PAL DV Widescreen.
I also have set the camera I am going to use to film in Widescreen but the aspect ratio is 16:9. Will this clash with the aspect ratio in the vegas project? I want to take footage off the camera and small sections SFX footage from After Effects and stick it all together in Vegas and have everything have the same widescreen aspect ratio without variation.

Is there a way to go about making sure everything looks ok?

Also, how can I choose where After Effects renders the footage to? It goes somewhere random at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated!

Incindre

Argh Aspect ratio confusion! Err, from memory, 720x576 is 4:3, thus for it to be widescreen it means the pixels are squashed (so there's still 720 pixels going across but they're rectangular instead of square). At the ratio of 1.45 etc. it is in 16:9, so there's no worries there. If you're filming in PAL widescreen they'll match, but if in NTSC widescreen it might be a little off but can give greater resolution picture quality. If they don't match the easiest solution would be to crop it, there'll be an effect in most editing programs to do crop it to 16:9 with black bars, or do it manually with the resize effect.

As for after effects, if there's not an option to choose the destination before rendering, check the preferences. I thought it saved it in the same folder as the project, haven't been near it in a while.

Hope I've helped, I'm more of a find out by doing sort of person than actual knowledge I'm afraid so theres a good chance I'm wrong:P

good luck.

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[Incindre]

Thanks alot man, Great help!

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