Re-authoring a DVD with both 4:3 and 16:9 parts

[lordretsudo]

Looking for some help with quite a complicated problem here... I have added a scene from a 4:3 VHS rip back into a 16:9 DVD using Sony Vegas. I've reset the IFOs to 16:9, but the film seems to display in 4:3... is there any way to correct this, or a better way to re-author the DVD that will keep the 16:9 flagging intact?

Any advice would be great!

[guns1inger]

You can't mix 4:3 and 16:9 material in the same title. It can only be one or the other.

I am not sure how Vegas fits into the equation, given it is a video editor.

If this is an attempt to put a scene into a movie, where the movie is 16:9 and the scene is 4:3, convert the scene to 16:9, either by cropping or pillarboxing, extract the video from the VOBs, edit in the scene, then either create new VOBs and use VOBBlanker to put them into the original structure, or use them to author a new disc.

[lordretsudo]

Thanks for the reply - I had used Vegas to re-integrate the scene into the film, but perhaps this was the wrong approach?!

As you said, the scene is 4:3 and the film is 16:9. Could you advise me as to what is the best way to crop or pillarbox the scene so that it is 16:9?

I'm a bit lost with this stuff, as I normally only work on custom subbing and audio resyncing...

[MOVIEGEEK]

You could use DVDRebuilder.

[guns1inger]

In Vegas, set your project settings to 16:9, import your footage, and make sure that footage on the timeline has the correct aspect ratio recognised. You can do this by right-clicking the clip and selecting properties. If the AR is wrong, set it correctly here. When you look in the preview window everything should be correct.

If you decide you want to crop instead of pillarbox, use Event Pan and Crop on the 4:3 clip and zoom in as necessary.

DVD Rebuilder can crop and convert 4:3 to 16:9, however it is an extra re-encoding which will not help you much in this instance.