How to change a 4:3 video to 16:9 in Sony Vegas.

Today I’m going to show you how you can change a 4:3 video to 16:9 in Sony Vegas. Because you know, widescreen looks cool. There are two ways of doing it and both have their own benefits and consequences. By the first method, you will be able to change the video to widescreen but you will have to lose a small part of the frame from top or bottom. And by the second method, you will not lose any part of the fame but your video will be little bit stretched.

I’m going to show you both the methods. Here’s the first one…

Open up your Vegas and make sure you have a 16:9 project selected in project properties.

Drag and drop your 4:3 video into Vegas and click on the little ‘Event pan/crop’ icon on the video track.

 

You’ll see a new window, just drag and drop the video from top and bottom in the new window till you get a widescreen 16:9 video. Now you can render the video.

 

Here’s the second method…

If you cannot afford to lose any part of the video frame, then just right click on the video track and go to properties and uncheck ‘Maintain aspect ratio’ and you’ll get a widescreen video straight away. But remember that your video will be stretched.

 

After that, you can render the video to your preferred settings.

 

Watch this tutorial for detailed process.