Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
ThrowgnCpr said:
If you do end up creating a mask externally, I don't think you would have too many problems with a jagged or stairstepped edge. How would you render from Vegas? You could save it as a lossless AVI, or frameserve directly to something like CCE for a good DVD render (I usually do not render to DVD straight from Vegas). Either way, I think that the result would be fine.

I would probably use avisynth/virtualdub to do the resize, then - and this presupposes that I am using Vegas to do the curved border instead of avisynth - I would take the resized .avi file and open it in Vegas to add the curved additional border. I'd render that as an avi, and use TMPGEnc to encode the final result for DVD.

sounds good. I cannot imagine that this would produce any sort of stair-stepping or pixelation, if you are encoding to a lossless AVI from Vegas. and the translation to DVD through TMPGEnc should be fine too.

It might be interesting to see some samples eventually with the different "fixes" you proposed. A picture is worth a thousand words.

...oh, and if I hadn't said it before. This project totally rocks!!!! Keep up the great work Puggo :)