16:9 to 4:3 letterbox ???

[jbusser]

Hey,
Does annyone have an idea how to handle the following problem.
I have a Sony PC109E digicam for two years now, made lots of films.
Usually I tape in widescreen format but now I made a little mistake...
I taped a musical at a school end because it was )much) longer than 1 hour I used my old analogue camera to "fill the pause" in which I changed the tape...
It's not the first time I did that but now I forgot to set my Sony to 4:3 taping.
To make the analogue 4:3 recording compatible with the widescreen from my sony I need to have the two different sizes on 1 DVD.
Because Studio8 is all I have (it is not able to record 16:9) the adaption has to be made on TV (showing in "panoramic") to get correct proportions, otherwise the children in the musical will be much to thin and tall...
Any ideas?

[guns1inger]

So do you want letterboxed, with black bars, or full screen 4:3 from the 16:9 footage ?

To get letterboxed, resize the footage to 720 x 360 (NTSC) and add 60 pixel high black bars to the top and bottom of the image to fill it out to 480 pixels again.

For PAL, resize to 720 x 432, then add 72 pixel high black bars top and bottom.

[JohnnyMalaria]

If you are needing to convert your 16:9 footage to letterboxed 4:3, then our Enosoft DV Processor will do that conversion for you on the fly - either from a pre-existing AVI file or during capture from a DV device. (In fact, we originally wrote the software for that very reason - lots of widescreen footage but no affordable widescreen TVs to view it on!) It's in beta testing and so free to use...

Oh...and the conversion is automatic. If the input is 4:3, it leaves it alone - if it's 16:9, it converts the frame and changes the flag in the DV stream. And you can override the automatic detection and force conversion even if the flag in the stream states 4:3.

[jbusser]

I downloaded ensoft DV processor but my older Athlon doesn't support this programm.
The first given option:
What programm can I use to resize my DV-avi's?

Thanks for your reply's

[guns1inger]

virtualdubmod and the panasonic DV codec would be the simplest

Load your video into virtualdubmod, then go Video->Filters. Click on Add select the Resize filter. Click on OK.

For New Width enter 720. For New Height, enter 360 for NTSC or 432 for PAL. For Filter Mode, select Precise Bicubic (A=0.75). Tick the Interlaced box.

Tick Expand Frame and Letterbox Image. For Frame Width enter 720, for Frame Height, enter 480 for NTSC or 576 for PAL. Click OK, then OK again.

File -> Save As, and set compression to be Panasonic DV Codec, and save the new video.

[jbusser]

Ok, It does what I want but...
Oh my god What a bad coder Panasonic DV Codec is.
Ik get stripes en lots of qualityloss.
I've got to find another way...
Thank anyway

[edDV]

Ok, It does what I want but...
Oh my god What a bad coder Panasonic DV Codec is.
Ik get stripes en lots of qualityloss.
I've got to find another way...
Thank anyway

I suggest you upgrade to a DV native editor like Premiere Elements or Sony Vegas Movie Studio or higher. They will handle wide screen and maintain first generation DV up to the MPeg2 encoder for unprocessed DV. VirtualDub will convert everything first to native RGB and the PanasonicDV codec isn't the best.

[guns1inger]

You could also do the same in avisynth, them frameserve to a good encoder. That would be my option if I didn't have Vegas available.