extracting wide screen clip

[pixel zombie]

i have a movie(which is wide screen format) that i'm trying to extract just 1 scene, but no matter which tool i use it ends up being 640X480 instead of 720X480..i've tried YADE, DVD2one, and even mpeg streamclip without any luck...

[manono]

Hi,

You may be just seeing the resized video when playing it back. If it's from a DVD, and if it's being extracted unchanged, then it should still be 720x480. You can confirm this (or disprove it) by opening the video in GSpot and checking the resolution. Or, if in VOB, MPG, or M2V format, open it in DGIndex, ReStream, BitRate Viewer or a number of other apps and check the resolution. And if it's playing correctly at 640x480, and if it's really widescreen, and if it's playing with black bars above and below (check what it really looks like in DGIndex or VDubMod), then most likely you have a widescreen 4:3 DVD on your hands.

[pixel zombie]

thanks for the info, but those are PC apps..i was able to make it work using this tip:


When you launch Toast 7 choose Preferances from File menu...Then on the first tab /General/ set ON "Show legacy formats and settings"...Now navigate to Video section and drop your .mov on it...From the left panel choose DVD-Video and then click "More" button...There you can set custom encoder options and among other things you can set Aspect ratio to 16:9...

[manono]

I apologize. I only noticed the thread on the front page and answered not realizing this was a Mac question. So none of the apps I mentioned work on a Mac? And you didn't extract VOBs from a source DVD? In your initial post you said nothing about reencoding it.

[pixel zombie]

they were extracted from a source DVD, and i always set Toast not to re-encode, that option mentioned is just for the aspect ratio...

[manono]

Fast response. If all you did was to extract them, and if they weren't reencoded, and if the source was 720x480, then doesn't it stand to reason that the extracted clips would also be 720x480?

[pixel zombie]

that's what i couldn't figure out, the original dvd has the horizontal format with the black bars yet the extracted clip looks "squashed" and doesn't have any black bars..not sure why that is but at least i have a work around for now...