Cinemascope aspect in DVDLab Pro

[chr1st1an]

Hi, I need to author a DVD with a movie that is have cinemascope aspect (2.35:1). When I put it in DVD lab it says that is not DVD compliant. Ok, I know that, the problem is that DVD lab resizes the movie to 16:9. How can I solve this? or, is there a way to leave the aspect and let DVD lab to add "black bars" to borders in order to resize the movie but keeping the aspect?
thanks

Christian

pd: sory for my english

[guns1inger]

You have to encode it correctly as a 16:9 video, with the appropriate black bars. DVD has only two aspect ratios - 4:3 (fullscreen) and 16:9 (widescreen). Within these various film ratios can be presented by padding out the frame with black bars.

How did you create this video ?

DVD Lab doesn't encode, so you need to create the assets correctly first. If you are creating 16:9 for NTSC (for example), you need to take you existing video, resize it so it 720 wide, add black bars to fill out the height to 360 pixels, then resize vertically to 480. Encode this as 16:9 and you will get a widescreen enhanced 2.35:1 movie with a DVD compliant ratio.

[aedipuss]

after the authoring is done open the ifo files and change the aspect ratios to unspecified and it should play as recorded, ifoedit works fine for this.

[guns1inger]

If it's not compliant to begin with (and 2.35:1 on it's own is not) then it can't be authored.

[chr1st1an]

Ok, how can I add the black bars??

thanks
Christian

[guns1inger]

What do you have to start with ?

Is it Divx or mpeg2 or something else ?
What is the resolution ?
What is your encoder ?
What other tools do you have (virtualdub, avisynth etc) ?

[themiragemaker]

Hi everyone,

Glad I found this thread. I have a very similar problem only slightly different. I'd made an animation (NTSC) that is in aspect ratio 2.35:1 and I'd letterboxed it to fit regular TV screens (4:3)

Problem is now I don't have access to all of the original compilation so I can't output the DVD again as widescreen from Premiere Pro.

I now have a 2.35:1 film letterboxed to 4:3 but want to make this into a 16:9 widescreen DVD (with black bars of course since mine is cinemascope) . I'm using DVD-Lab Pro and would like to know if there is any way to crop out the black bars from the 4:3 DVD so that it plays properly in both widescreen TV's and regular TV's.

Hope that was clear. To sum up...

Source Video: 2.35:1 frame letterboxed as 4:3 DVD (Simple DVD - no menus/chapters) Progressive video.

Required Ouput: Widescreen DVD that plays accurately on 16:9 TVs and will automatically letterbox on regular TVs

I know Dvd LAB Pro supports multiple VTS to have both widescreen and 4:3 versions of the film. But how do I crop out the black bars from the 4:3 version so it plays properly on a widescreen?

thanks for any and all help you give in advance and thanks even for reading this.

-themiragemaker.

[guns1inger]

This will help

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=299106

This one has the avisynth script as well

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1504488#1504488