The Animatrix QT > VCD problem

[AlucardXXVII]

I downloaded and converted the QuickTime Animatrix episode (off of the Animatrix website, they allow it) to Mpeg-1 with TMPEGENC. Since the original movie was in kind of a weird letterbox resolution, TMPEGENC puts a thick black border across the top and bottom of the movie in order to keep it at 320x240.

Is there any way to "squish" the video a little bit, making it taller, but without losing anything on the sides? I still want it to be widescreen but with black boxes that are less thick.

Thanks!
-Justin

[Heflink]

Sure, you could just change the Video Arrange Method under Advanced in the MPEG settings. But if you do that it will have a screwed up Aspect Ratio. Pesonally I think that looks a lot worse then it being in Wide Screen.


PS: I never new about the animatrix until your post, I downloaded it. This is pretty cool stuff. I think I'll wait until there is a little bit more then a 10 minute snippete before I make a myself VCD of it though.