Ok. I've been pissing around with this ofr hours and it's driving me nuts. I finally found a good setup to reencode a 2.35:1 DVD rip to 1.85:1 using AVISynth (2.5.5?) and TMPGEnc Xpress. The problem is the audio ends up insanely out of sync. I've messed around in TMPGEnc trying to get it to sync up and I can't get it no matter what I do. I had it to like -22000ms and it seemed dead on with the guy saying something, but then it seemed totally off the rest of that scene. Could the audio be not even playing at the right speed or something? I'm using the AVS as the video source and trying to encode with the AC3 as audio source, both demuxed with DVD Decryptor. I tried messing with audio stuff with avisynth and a converted WAV from the AC3 but that didn't seem to do anything either.

This is what I did with avisynth (working with Stargate Director's Cut U.S. release - 2.35:1):

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEGDecoder.dll")
mpegsource("C:\STARGATE_ULTIMATE_EDITION\VIDEO_TS\ VTS_01_1.M2V")
LanczosResize(720,480,87,58,546,364)


I tried using dgmpegdec and cropping the video the same all around instead of using the avisynth script and it encoded in perfect sync, but the black bars aren't the same size on the top and bottom even though I cropped equally.

p.s. Someone should really put up a guide on properly resizing to other aspect ratios, like from 2.35:1 / 2.40:1 to 1.85:1 or even 1.77:1, etc. I've seen notihng on the site relating to that other than cropping all the way down to 1.33:1. That doesn't look very good without the ability to do true pan & scan. I found that LanczosResize thing on some obscure site with a Google search.