lighting effect bleeding into black bars

[elbarto1]

hello all -
I have been working w/ a regular avi in vegas and have added a few lighting effects to some scenes they looked fine until last night when I replaced the videofile w/ a lagarith avi to get a better final render and now the effects bleed over the black bars very noticeably. any ideas why?

also, i have a few different sources here and before (original avi) the A/R matched and after inserting the lag avi they seem to be off? nothing looks squished though. due to time I might have to go w/ my original (slightly lower quality) render :x
thanks.

 

[AvP]

well if you use a external encoder you can crop the black bars and add new bars in vdub.

 

[Uncanny Antman]

now the effects bleed over the black bars very noticeably. any ideas why?

Because they are part of the image. The effect doesn't ignore the bars like an audience is supposed to.

 

[elbarto1]

well they werent effected in the first avi I was using... only the lagarith.
I ended up cropping the shots in vegas to remedy the issues but it was odd.
its like the first avi I was using had no bars and vegas added them, but the lagarith had the bars hardcoded in.
oh well, just another thing to toss in my book of "stuff I learned while fanediting"

 

[Uncanny Antman]

Was the other thing you were editing in 1:85:1?

 

[ThrowgnCpr]

another way to handle this is add new black bars over the effect. There is a plugin for Vegas that you can add as an effect on top of your plugin chain: http://zenote.com/product/letterbox.asp

 

[elbarto1]

another way to handle this is add new black bars over the effect. There is a plugin for Vegas that you can add as an effect on top of your plugin chain: http://zenote.com/product/letterbox.asp

I know you have told me about that before but I had forgotten.
I will add this to my arsenal for future battles against nonsense.
thanks.

Was the other thing you were editing in 1:85:1?

I dont believe so. It was the same footage. I initially started w small avi's as I didnt have the room on my HDD for multiple lagarith films. once completed (editing) I replaced the main film avi w a lagarith avi of the same source and thats when I had the issues of the light effects crossing the borders.

 

[Ghostcut]

I tend to crop the letterboxing when I'm editing 2.35:1, and adjust the project's aspect to fit. When exporting the letterboxing is automatically added but importantly, the effects don't bleed out into the letterbox area.