Re: Widescreen (again)

I would stay widescreen all the way, from Vegas Project properties to Render settings, to DVDA Project Settings.

To make SD pics fit into the 16:9 shape, you can either:

Use Pan Crop - Right click / Match Output Aspect. In effect this will cut off the top and bottom, but you can slide the frame up or down if the central crop isn't what you want. The downside of this method is that because you're using part of a 4:3 pic to fill a 16:9 frame, this zooming-in will cause a loss of resolution. Supersampling may help minimise this loss.

OR

Leave them as they are, which means you have them at their full height but with a blank space either side. You can either leave this as black or fill with a colour, gradient or some other still or moving image such as texture loops.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
www.allroundvision.com.au