Widescreen Movie to DVDR

[Sakuya]

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Hello, I was wondering. I have this movie whose size is 640x360. It is a widescreen movie where the black bars are not present in the video. I want to make a DVD with it. The video is in AVI format and it uses Xvid. Is it right to convert it to MPEG with the aspect ratio set at 16:9 525 line NTSC and the video arrange method at keep full aspect ratio? When I conducted a test using the converted MPEG on my DVD player, the video was too narrow. Meaning, the characters look too plump.

Can anyone help me so it will look like normal widescreen?

[Sakuya]

Also, I have another question. What is the standard size for MPEG-2 files for DVDs? If it's bigger than 712, wouldn't I have to resize the video by using the DVD template in TMPGEnc therefore losing video quality?

[Sakuya]

I changed my first post because I felt my new question belonged to the same category. Can anyone please help me?

[vhelp]

hi Sakuya,

Hello, I was wondering. I have this movie whose size is 640x360. It is a widescreen movie where the black bars are not present in the video. I want to make a DVD with it. The video is in AVI format and it uses Xvid. Is it right to convert it to MPEG with the aspect ratio set at 16:9 525 line NTSC and the video arrange method at keep full aspect ratio? When I conducted a test using the converted MPEG on my DVD player, the video was too narrow. Meaning, the characters look too plump

You could, but you'll have to resize it (if going to DVD spec) to 720 x 480,
and set to 16:9 in TMPG.
I'm not sure which one it is (in your case, since I don't do divX conversions)
but either it's:

* Full screen, or else its,
* Full screen (keep aspect ratio)

...and encode w/ 16:9 setting.


The standard size for dvd specs are:

* 352 x 480
* 704 x 480
* 720 x 480

I hope I gave you the right answers :P
Good luck,
-vhelp

[Sakuya]

That's what I did. I used the 16:9 NTSC aspect ratio. And then I selected full screen (keep aspect ratio). Should I try full screen?

Another question, if I were to convert a movie sized 712x400 to DVD, would I use 16:9 NTSC and full screen (keep aspect ratio) as well?

And both movies is required to resize to the appropriate DVD size right? Won't that lose some video quality?

[vhelp]

It's the price you have to pay sometimes, when dealing w/ divX (of any
variation) but peope still do it (encode them to vcd/svcd/dvd) and get along
w/ them just the same :P

Still, you'll need to resize those to 720 x 480, if you want them to be in
compliance for dvd authoring.

-vhelp

[Sakuya]

Well, I tried full screen and it's literally: full screen. No widescreen. What now?

[vhelp]

what now ?

You've got me. I think your next step is to go out and actually test it by
burning to a dvd disk and then playing on your dvd player and watching it
on your tv for a final analysis.

You can't trust your software app players, cause some of them don't always
properly display the aspect ratio correctly. Even if they do, YOU have to
be the one that has it set properly. Otherwise, you are at fault if it's not
working out right.

But, if you resize to 720 x 480 and encode as 16:9 and either used
* full screen, or
* full screen (keep aspect ratio)

Then, the next step in the final test, is to actually burn it to dvd disk and
test it out :P

Other than that, I'm not expert when it comes to divX stuff, cause even
they are wrong.

-vhelp

[Sakuya]

Ok. I converted several clips using all of the options available there. I'll edit this post after I have watched it on my DVD player.

[vhelp]

Good luck, :P

really.

-vhelp

[Sakuya]

The full screen keep aspect ratio #2 looks fine I guess. As well as center keep aspect ratio. The only difference between those 2 is that the center one is a bit bigger than the first one. I can't explain it too well. Thanks!

[Sakuya]

Actually, when I did another test with those 2 options but using a different scene where it shows a good frontal view of the character, they both came out incorrectly. The face was too plump, plumper than the source video. So I set it at center size ---x360. The --- refers to the width of the DVD output MPEG file. And it looks awesome!

[Sakuya]

Actually, I think I know what I did wrong. In the Advanced tab in TMPGEnc, I set the Source Aspect Ratio at 1:1 (VGA). So I am supposed to set that at 16:9 Display right? For the Video Arrange Method, I have to set that at Full Screen (keep aspect ratio). And then in the Video tab, for the Aspect Ratio I have to set that at 16:9 525 line (NTSC). I'm currently burning a test using those settings. But what difference does setting it at 16:9 Display make anyway? I'll edit this post when I have checked my test piece.

EDIT:

The characters turned plump again.