very wide screen to normal 16:9

[svdf]

i don't know what the name is of that format, but it's bigger than 16:9 so on my 16:9 tv i will have black borders at the top and the bottom of the movie... so how can i convert it? in virtualdub? an if yes, then how???

[Mirror_Image]

If I had (for example) a 640x272 movie that i wanted to distort so that it filled a 16:9 screen, I'd open it in VirtualDub, use the resize filter (precise bicubic probably, mess around with it) to make it 640x360, but it'd look fairly odd.


Trivia:

Some movies are extremely widescreen. The DVD of Blade Runner (Director's Cut) is 2.48:1, which is roughly 22.3:9 (or 16:6.5). Interestingly, the original Panavision print was 2.35:1, which they anamorpically took to 2.48:1 for the DVD, I guess.

[svdf]

yes my file is 640 X 272, but resizing isn't an option... any more solutions, or should i just leaveit like this?

[Mirror_Image]

If resizing isn't an option, let's go back to your previous question:

so how can i convert it?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by convert; do you mean convert to a different codec, like MPEG-1 or MPEG-2? Convert in what way, roughly?

[svdf]

well i have a divx file, ant want to make a xvcd file... so you tell me what to do
no serious... do i have to convert it to divx of the right format first, or can i do it frameserving, or with tmpgenc directly???