TMPGEnc - convert original wide screen to full screen.

[dg_phillips]

I have followed the guides on how to do this in TEMPGEnc...

Video arrange method: [ No Margin (keep aspect ratio)]

and this does NOT seem to do the trick. Anyone know how to convert this from widescreen to fullscreen?

Dan

[mujahid7ia]

Do u mean you want to cut off the sides of the movie to make it fullscreen? Or do u want a widescreen letterbox in a fullscreen frame (black bars)?

[dg_phillips]

Well...yes in fact...I want to stretch the mpg up and down and basically cut the left and right sides off. Most times I don't even bother but every so often I find an avi or mpg that my DVD player plays EXTRA THIN on my standard 4:3 television. I encoded with TEMPGEnc and it helped but it is still what I call wide screen (16:9) and I would really prefer full screen (4:3). It's funny but this mpg was originally an XVCD when I downloaded it which I believe is "non-standard" SVCD. I have downloaded a few of these in the past and normally they stay 16:9 no matter what I do. This is fine most times but in a few cases in the past as is this particular case, the XVCD even plays super-thin wide screen on both Windows Media Player AND PowerDVD. I encoded with TEMPGEnc and set the Video Arrange Method to: NO MARGIN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO) which I have read in a couple of guides here at DVDHELP.COM is supposed to convert 16:9 to 4:3. Well this helps but not enough. Not sure what to do at this point.

Dan

[Gees]

it seems to me

keep aspect ratio

would mean keep 16:9 and you want to go to 4:3

I'd never want to change from letterboxed/widescreen, so I've never attempted it.

You'd either lose the sides or scrunch or stretch everything. None sound good to me.

But, try the "CENTER" option on a small clip from it. Maybe that'll do it. :c)

[FOO]

You have 16:9 and you want 4:3 = 12:9
so you crop 2/16 from each side , which is 90 if it was 720 before

Then you resize to 720 x 480 and encode with a 4:3 aspect ratio set

One of those TMPGenc settings might do all that automatically , but
I can't remember which .

[lordsmurf]

Under settings, go to CLIP FRAME, and then select FULL (KEEP ASPECT) and that'll do it.