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[ht0160]

i want to make my video to loock like a wide screen it is any way to doit
if it's please tell what i need
thx for any help

[Baldrick]

we need more information.

what is your source? what is the aspect ratio?

[spectroelectro]

Actually, we can go a long ways toward answering your question even without the information, which as Baldrick points out, would be helpful.

Many DV camcorders have a button which automatically records video in 16:9 format. For instance, my now-7-year-old Sony TRV7000 Digital 8 camcorder has a menu entry which lets me record video in 16:9. When you pull video off the camcorder of course you must choose 16:9 instead of 4:3 or 1:1 when you encode the Type 2 DV to MPEG-2 or divx.

However, even if your camcorder hasn't got a feature that lets you record in 16:9 format, you fake it by shooting from farther away than you normally would and simply cropping the picture in TMPGenc or VirtualDub. To crop in TMPGenc, load the avi file you want to encode and go into SETTINGS -> ADVANCED -> double click on CROP FRAME after checking the box, then choose the appropriate number of pixels for top and bottom crop frame. The crop mask defaults to black color, which is what you want in all likelihood, but you can make it any color by choosing MASK COLOR SETTING. For 16:9 aspect ratio inside a 720 x 480 screen, you'll have to have a vertical letterbox screen 3/4 of its current 480 pixels (because 3/4 of a 3:4 ratio gives you 9:16 ratio of horizontal to vertical) . That works out to 360 pixels, so you must crop out 60 pixels from top and bottom.

If you shoot from a little farther away than usual you can letterbox the 4:3 video and it won't look much different from typical letterboxed big-screen film on TV. Of course the letterbox bars at top and bottom annoy some folks. If you have an HDTV, the entire process is different. But I'm assuming that, like most of us, you have a 4:3 digital camcorder and not an HD camcorder and you're generating MPEG-2 intended for analog NTSC TV output, not HDTV output.

[ht0160]

thank you for you help