Was wondering if someone has the time to help me out?

[matt_a_us]

i have a avi movie the image is 640 height is 272 for the image and 115kbps bit rate for the audio...When i encode this film to vcd the picture don't look right in full screen...The people look tall and skinny was wondering how to fix this...also what is the height and the width of a movie in full screen also for widescreen...Thanks for your time to read my post...Hope to here from someone...

[TheMan2K]

TMPGEnc automatically stretches the images to fill the screen by default, and this is good if your source is 4:3, but if it's not then you have to specify the width and height of the display within the frame. You may do this by choosing Settings, Advanced, Video Arrange Method, Center (custom size). I made the following calculations for correct ratio display after encoding, I havn't tested them all, but I am fairly sure they are correct. These numbers only apply if your source is 640 by 272 or an equal ratio (40:17):

Non-Anamorphic (4/3) NTSC
352x136

Non-Anamorphic (4/3) PAL
352x163

Anamorphic (16/9) NTSC
352x181

Anamorphic (16/9) PAL
352x218

Non-Anamorphic will look correct on a normal tv screen, but on a widescreen tv you must use the zoom feature. Anamorphic will look correct on a widescreen tv in widescreen mode, but will look incorrect on a normal tv unless your player can change the height of the image (i know dvds do this, but not sure if you can make it work for vcd)

[Bud]

Open the AVI file wiht VirtualDub, use the RESIZE filter and set it to 352x240, do the frameserve thing with TMPGEns, this will correct the size for you and loose teh quality of the original AVI, I use this method when going from 352-480 capture with great results. That is is your looking for standard VCD.

Bud

[Bud]

Big fingers small keyboard.....you will NOT LOOSE any quality from the original AVI file.

[TheMan2K]

no quality loss from 640x272 to 352x240....!? hmm

i would still just encode using my numbers, they take into account that the tv changes 352x240 to be 4:3, the other way cannot

[Bud]

OK....let's put it this way...in my eyes I see no quality loss, so use whatever you feel is right for you and gives you the quality you want, one great thing about this site is you will get all the recommendations you can handle, and you spend more time playing with settings than making movies, I have played with so many options, it got to point that I just come upon what worked for me and left it alone.

Bud

[TheMan2K]

what does frameserving do anyway?

[Bud]

Frameserving saves you disk space. You only create one large file (Avi) as opposed to two. You also have, at least for me, better filters to work with, and a little better editor (VirturalDub). Again this works for me, you will have to develope a system that works for you and your system.

Bud

[kinneera]

Frameserving also allows for inline editing of the source material (e.g. cutting commercials) so that your MPEG encoder produces one continous stream, which avoids the frequently problematic task of joining MPEGs.