How do I convert my Wide-Screen movies to Full-Screen movies

[ballershotcal68]

I've looked and I've looked for a solution to this problem BUT..... I've found Sefy's complete guide and that did not help me at all. According to the guide, I am to use DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc but it does not work. For instance I'm trying to make Gladiator into a full-screen movie and I've taken it thru TMPGEnc. Well on TMPGEnc during the conversion process it gets stuck on the part where Maximus is being carried to Proximo. And its like that for the rest of the movie.And guess what it was STILL in widescreen mode. I've tried DVD X COPY Platnium v3.1.1 and it does not work either. If anyone has any suggestions, links to guides and/or any advice for this problem please post, PLEASE???????????????

[ZippyP.]

When you convert from wide to full you either cut off and lose 1/3 of the picture or you stretch it vertical to fit. Either way it looks like crap. Why bother?

[Supreme2k]

BLASPHEMY!

[cd090580]

You can set with ifo edit the main movie in "letterbox" and "pan&scan". Then config you dvd player to play it as pan&scan.

For a 2.35:1 movie => it will display in 1.85:1
For a 1.85:1 or 1.77:1 movie => it will display in 1.33:1

You only loose a small part of the movie when displayed on tv but if you set back you dvd player to 4:3 letterbox then you video will a in full widescreen (like the original video).

BLASPHEMY!

A 2.35:1 movie is not alway funny to watch on a 4:3 Tv (more black bars then pictures )

[guns1inger]

A 2.35:1 movie is not alway funny to watch on a 4:3 Tv (more black bars then pictures )

I'd rather have the black bars that lose almost two thirds of the image.

[overloaded_ide]

I geuss I have a bit of the same problem, I recorded a theater play again for the group and in order to catch all the action I often have to be zoomed out for the full stage. This of course creates a letter box wide screen effect as I get alot of top and bottom dead space.

I am looking for a way to zoom in durring authoring or editing, and maybe pan and scan I have not found an easy way (and cheap, this is freebies). I don't always need both ends of the stage at the same time, but the tripod and camcorder don't work well in the theater. It's a wobbly setup and the least movement bounces and jiggles the picture, so most of the time I'd like to be zoomed in close up I am not do to having to go side to side too much with the camera as they move around alot.

I wonder if I could author the DVD, burn it, play on set top player as I capture to the system a second time and simply zoom in, then pan/scan with the dvd remote as it plays?? My theory is I will be enlarging the entire picture not stretching it just vertically and I won't cut off the ends either since I could follow the action panning with the remote. I mean I would be cutting off the ends, but not just always cutting the same all the time and losing the action, I could choose what to cut and pretty much keep the action in the center of the screen.

Might be worth a try for others too! It may not work well for me since I am working with VHS and lighting is not that good for camcorders, though it worked ok for live. For those converting DVD or True VHS quality it may work well though since you would have more quality to begin with than I do, so the zoom in may look good for others trying this. My lower quality recording may be trash when zoomed in though??

Just a thought that might be worth a fast try for those that don't mind taking the time to try it and maybe having to burn an extra disk.
I will eventually be burning about 10 copies or so, so that first disk to pan and scan won't matter much.