Changing widescreen mpegs to full screen (panning etc.)?

[wetcamelfood]

I'm probably one of the few that prefers full screen DVD's to widescreen.

So, for my own personal use, after ripping a widescreen DVD to my computer, is there software I can use to edit the video in a way which will allow me to zoom in on a widescreen movie, and then pan if needed, to then burn the full screen mpeg version I made on to a DVD? I realize it will be very time consuming but well worth it (I think).

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I don't know where else to ask on this. I use DVD Decrypter for ripping (for now, until I can decide what the best replacement will be of those rippers that will be updated in the future), VideoReDo for editing (though I couldn't find this feature on the version of VRD that I have, but by all means do point it out to me if I'm overlooking it) & Ulead DMF for the burning).

Thanks in advance & looking forward to the replies.

[greymalkin]

the tedious hours this would take i believe would justify purchasing the fullscreen version of this dvd if one is available.

The only other way I know to do it would be manually through a program like premiere. You would have to make a true 4:3 box and go through the movie scene by scene (and maybe frame by frame in some parts) and shift the focus side to side very smoothly or you'll end up with a headache trying to bounce side to side all the time. You will also have to re-encode this way losing quality. I hate to be a doubting thomas but unless theres a better way i really think it will not end up how you expected.

[wetcamelfood]

Oh yeah sorry, I meant to say that these were for DVD's that aren't available for sale in full screen editions. Thanks anyways though, I figured there wouldn't be an easier way but just thought I'd check here in case there was. Please anyone do post about this here if there is another way (besides "frame by frame") to do this though.

[dphirschler]

I would code a few functions in AviSynth for this.

dhCrop(x)
This would zoom into the center of the frame. X=0 would keep it centered. X=-100 would zoom-in all the way to the left, x=100 would ba all the way to the right.

dhPan(x)
This would slowly pan toward x. This function would make use of the above function.

dhZoom(x)
this function would exist to zoom in or out in the case you needed to. For instance, you might want to zoom out for credits if they get cropped.

Then you'd need to write some functions to do many frames at a time. That's not too hard using the trim command.

It's gonna be tedius even after you get the functions written. Good luck.


Darryl

[edDV]

Oh yeah sorry, I meant to say that these were for DVD's that aren't available for sale in full screen editions. Thanks anyways though, I figured there wouldn't be an easier way but just thought I'd check here in case there was. Please anyone do post about this here if there is another way (besides "frame by frame") to do this though.

Pan/Scan technique:

You edit the film scene by scene by steering a 4x3 window over the 16x9 frame choosing the best compromise framing.

Next step up is the use a full featured video editor like Premiere or AVID to apply splined motion pans and zooms to enhance scenes that need it. Keyframes and bezier splines are used to set smooth pan/zoom motion and non-realtime filters render the video.

The former is often available as 4:3 Pan/Scan mode on a wide screen DVD where the DVD player is controlled to steer a 4x3 frame left and right. The latter technique is used to create a "full screen" 4:3 version of a widescreen movie.

The term "full screen" should refer to the letterboxed image IMO.