Hi all! I am having a bit of trouble with letterboxing when I place a video in my current project, and would appreciate any help. Here's the basic problem: when I create my animation (400 x 300) in Vue 6, I like to do it in uncompressed format and then run it through a video editor for compression in order to improve the quality/filesize balance. Unfortunately, both video editing programs that I use (Adobe Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas Home Studio Platinum 8) import the video at 720 x 480, and even when I change the format to a 4:3 ratio like 640 x 480, the output is still letterboxed. In my project, the video is used to create a "turning" effect in a room from a north to east view (the video pans from a north view to an east view then the game switches to the frame with the east view), but when the hotspot is clicked, the video that I've created is letterboxed, so the edges of the frame behind the video are still visible, even though I've chosen to stretch the video to 800 x 600 in AM. What I need to figure out how to do is import the video in as 400 x 300 into the video editor and keep it that way when it's exported, and without the letterboxing.
In one case, I did get the edges of the frame to disappear, but the problem was that the output video still had the black frame around it (which covered the frame). But since the original frame of the video is identical to what the players sees as the hotspot is clicked (i.e. the north view), essentially the frame gets "shrunk" as the animation occurs. Doesn't look so good!
By the way, I've tried reducing the safe area and the title safe area to 0%, but that didn't work, either.
Thanks in advance,
- Ian