How about the "Maintain Aspect Ratio" and "Stretch to fill frame" boxes (lower left-hand corner). Are these checked? Try them in various checked/unchecked positions. I believe mine are always checked. (They are both checked on the computer I have here).

I too think Edvard's replys ought to take care of it. What are your project settings? And your footagetype? Any or both interlaced? Same setting (lower first or...)? And how big is the black margin you're getting?

I did the "maintain Aspect Ratio" but was unaware of a "stretch to fill frame"...I'll have to give that a shot.

How about the other odditie (don't want to call it a problem) regarding the way a clip looks when viewing it through the pan/crop tool? Does it distort it for everyone?

I have noticed some distortion on my monitor, once in a while, but, it never transfered to the rendered project.

I should post an image of what I'm talking about- I'll do a screen capture and post it.

Nevermind I found out the problem. As I was trying to reproduce the problem to take a screen capture I found out what was going on. Apparently when I had a sweeping motion over a still photograph I only made two key frames a beginning and an end key frame. As it animated from the start position to the zoomed end position on the photograph some areas in between the selection box traveled a little bit outside the image. I couldn't see this becuase I didn't have "sync to timeline cursor" selected. Once I selected it it actually animated the selection box as the clip played out and I saw the areas where the box overstepped the bounds.

Ok one problem solved. Now if I could only re-create that odd squeazing of photos/video while viewing it in the pan crop box. It was doing it on my laptop last night but haven't been able to recreate the problem on my desktop computer!

Vegas Print-To-Tape Problems
 

Just wondering if anyone else was having problems with Vegas's Print-to-tape program? I know of a few people having this problem and none of us can figure it out.

It only affects us in Vegas 4, but it's not sending a signal out threw my firewire. When editing I can preview the video on an external monitor threw the firewire but print-to-tape doesn't want to work. Vegas 3 works fine, think I've checked every setting possible and am running out of ideas.

Any suggestions anybody?

Thanks,

Joe

is it telling you its not the right format...
cause thats the error i get...

which is why i dont print to tape anymore uless i have to..
im lucky my work doesnt require excessive tape dupes...

It's the smoothing factor I think, that will sometimes go beyond the frame in its attemp to create beautiful sweeps. You can straighten it up by 1> adding a keyframe along the line (it will then smoothe between A-B and B-C) or 2> select lesser smooth and/or select linear keyframing. I've been had by this side effect, too.

Did you try playing the timeline and then recording it? Does that
work?

I had this same issue, but only when I tried to print footage uncompressed, for some reason. Every other time it works.

Just goes to show how goofy computers and software can be. I have no problem doing PTT (I do a masterDV tape of everything)- Vegas 4c works fine going right off the timeline. Have you tried going from the capture screen?
Don B.

You could probably also eliminate it by changing smoothness to 0 (instead of the default 100).

I likewise have had no problem with PTT using Vegas 4.0c outputting to my Sony VX2000 and recording to miniDV.

It works fine when I view the video from the timeline, would you guys recommend recording from the timeline like that, is there a quality as good on the timeline vs. print-to-tape?

My problem was when I click on Capture Video, it opens up the Capture Video, Print-to-tape program and I can capture video just fine but I can't load any video to output.

I'm sending my signal from pc, out threw firewire, to Sony DVMC-DA2 converter box(which translate to analog), to my tv monitor.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Joe