I'm capturing ENTERPRISE onto my DV camcorder and I've been simply compressing to VCD.....
I want to edit the video to remove the black banners and optput to a "squeezed" 4:3 format, so that my Widescreen TV will streach it out like it does DVD.
How can this be done?
I have VideoWave4 and Premiere 5&6.
I want to loose as little quality as possable.
I want to edit the video to remove the black banners and optput to a "squeezed" 4:3 format, so that my Widescreen TV will streach it out like it does DVD.
Thanks,
gNOME
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Hi gNOME
I have done just this for my capture of Dune.
I captured in AVI using virtualdub as a series of avi files. I then used the cropping option, (filters add a 0 transform then click on cropping) to crop all but the 16:9 letterbox. I then used logoaway filter to remove the sci fi channel logo and any ad-bumps then used the frameserving option to serve to TMPGenc and encoded using the 4:3 option on both the video and advanced tabs. This encodes an anamorphic squeezed picture which my widescreen set expands.
Some points to note
1. You are expanding the captured video by around 3 times which will blow up any noise / mpeg artifacts in the original video, (I have digital satellite which is already compressed)
2. You will be encoding a full screen of video instead of the letterboxed version so this will result in a larger file and a higher bitrate will be needed for the same quality.
I'm in two minds about it at the moment, I'm going to try another encode with the tmpgenc option set to 16:9 this will generate fresh black letterboxing for me resulting in a smaller video file with - theoretically - a higher bitrate available for the video. I'll post some results as they come in.
Meantime the discs I have look pretty good on my 32" widescreen with a little blocking on fast motion scenes but - hey - that's SVCD for you, roll on cheap DVD-r/rw !!
Cheers
Ed
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