aspect ratio cropping, pan and scan

[Fred|Flintstone]

Hi, this is my first post, i hope im doing it right.

I wonder if anybody knows of a utility or whater that can be used to say,
change the aspect ratio of a movie say from 2.3:1 to 4:3 or 16:9 to 4:3
by way of pan and scan, not squishing the picture, and tracking if the action is off to the side....

Any suggestions (other than buy a widescreen tv) will be appreciated


Fred|Flintstone

[El Torro]

Its very easy

16:9 is widescreen
4:3 is normal screen
1:1 is VGA screen, that means, if you're gonna watch it on your computer.

I have a normal tv, no widescreen and i live in europe(= i use PAL)
Aspect ratio : 4:3 625line (PAL 704*576)


What kind of input have you got? Do you have an AVI or an MPEG?
While you convert an avi, you can use TMPG to get the right aspect ratio. if you dont want to convert an avi, i suggest you use virtualdub...

[RadicalEd]

4:3 is normal screen
1:1 is VGA screen, that means, if you're gonna watch it on your computer.

thats not true :\ VGA uses 4:3 image dimensions as well. VGA's PAR (pixel aspect ratio) is 1:1 vs NTSC's par of 10:11 and PAL's par of like.. 54:59? I believe

[Fred|Flintstone]

Hi

I have a normal (for here?) 4:3 ntsc TV. THe problem is for instance some movies I get are in the 2.11:1 theatre format. watching that on my TV, there is more area used by the black strips than by the picture. I mostly convert divx movies to (s)vcd. Using tmpgenc I can fix this somewhat. I believe the seeting is full screen keep aspect ratio. But that really just crops off the sides and zooms in. I was hoping somebody knew of something that can follow the acction , so if the primary stuff is at the extreme right of the 2.11:1 picture it can use that part in the 4:3 crop. and a few seconds later when the action moves back to the center of the screen, it can make the 4:3 frame follow it there. The way tmpg does it isnt too bad becuase *usually* the center is where things happen, but occasionally, when I use that full screen keep aspect ratio, things are noticably missing. This never happens when a movie is put on TV. so there must be a way...