plz tell me i can do this

[Greg12]

when i get my laptop with it's dvd-rom, that i can rip dvd and change them from anomorphic widescreen to full screen.


and no one tell me their better in widescreen. i'd rather loose the ends of the picture than squint at that lil lil box u get with 2.35.1

[adam]

But the problem isnt just that your losing the sides of the picture its that in any given scene you might be losing the most important part of the picture. You dont just convert widescreen to fullscreen. You have to do a pan and scan conversion which means you go through each and every frame and pan the picture to the right or left before cropping the sides. This is extremely time consuming and there arent really any comercially available software programs which do this well, mainly because no one would be crazy enough to do one themselves.

If you absolutely want to do one you could just crop the top and bottm black bars out and then crop the left and right sides equally. You picture will fill the screen and the aspect ratio be maintained but dont be suprised if you hear people talking from off camera or see noses peaking in from the sides.

[Vejita-sama]

Yes you can do this. The how depends on what programs you're using.

[xzarkad]

I am not sure if this is what you want, but here we go:

Use DVD2AVI to remove the black bars.
Open TMPGEnc and choose as source aspect ratio:1-1 or 4-3625 (in case you are using pal)
Always select as video arrange method "full screen (keep aspect ratio)

Now you movie will be converted as a kind of anamorphic movie. this will stretch the image vertically, so you cannot see the movie on a computer of 4:3 TV set.(persons get eggheads)
You need a 16:9 Tv set, because your TV will strech the movie horizontally, and the movie will look fine.

There might be some small black bars added by TMPGEnc, but you will hardly notice them on TV.

hope this helps.

[Greg12]

i have a 4;3 tv and the problem is that widescreen movies that are made with 2.35.1 format are so small i can barly see them.

not enjoyable.

i wanna rip off these black bars and then make the picture fit my 27inch tv.

[adam]

Like I said your either going to have to just crop the sides along with the black borders and hope you don't lose anything important or your going to have to invest a great deal of time and do a pan and scan.

[BxB]

You may have to try a few settings, but you can often do this with TMPGEnc. Typically I'll set the source aspect ratio at 16:9 and set the arrange method to "no margin" (in advanced).

This will, of course, crop the sides off, but that's no big deal. When the movies are shown on TV (by HBO or broadcast channels), this is typically done.

[adam]

BxB read the previous posts in this thread. When movies are shown on tv they NEVER just crop the sides. Like I said this will result in losing essential parts of the movie. Imagine if in the final scenes of Citizen Kane the sled was on the right 1/4 of the screen. If you cropped the sides you would completely miss out on the entire point of the movie.

When films are converted to fullscreen you must do a pan and scan conversion. If you dont then there is no gurantee that your movie will even make sense anymore.