AviSynth & Aspect Ratios

[blazin-j]

Hi,

I am capturing video in .AVI format at 1920x1080 with the intent on burning it to Blu-Ray one day when the prices fall on BD-R media.

In the meantime, however, I'd like to downsize it to 720x480 and put it on a DVD-R. My question is how I can do this without changing the aspect ratio, preferably in AviSynth?

Since 720x480 is a 1.5:1 ratio and 1920x1080 is a 1.77:1 ratio, I am assuming there will be some distortion unless I tell AviSynth to downsize it in letterbox (16:9) format. Is this possible?

[Anacletus]

Hi there, i think what you need is a simple Avysinth script like this

avisource("path_to_your_video\your_video.avi"
Crop(x, x, -x, -x)
LanczosResize(720, xxx)..AddBorders(?, ?, ?, ?)


hope its clear

[jagabo]

DVD doesn't use square pixels. Resize the 1920x1080 frame to 720x480 and burn to 16:9 DVD.

[blazin-j]

OK, thanks for your help!