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  1. 19th Sep 2004 23:12 #1
    live4ever
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    What's the best way so I can get the right aspect ratio (would like the 720x480 resized to 640x480) all I seem to get is black bars added to a horizontally stretched picture.

    The output file size isn't so important, would like to get 8-10 movies (@20-30 min each) per DVD to play on mpeg4 STB.
  2. 20th Sep 2004 08:42 #2
    major
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    Using mencoder engine: hit autocrop first, then set width to 640, then set aspect ratio in the Autosize popup (possibly 2.35:1 or whatever you want your playback ratio to be), click "Best" for best bitrate, and encode.
  3. 21st Sep 2004 12:06 #3
    live4ever
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    Thanks - the encoded files came out to just over 400mb each and look just as good as the original DV files.

    Just a minor bug report (using .9p version) - after choosing the XviD (mencoder) engine, the ffmpegX progress window displays "encoding to h.264" but I still get a XviD 1.0 file out of it, so just the display is wrong.

    Didn't ffmpegX used to support encoding directly from the mov reference file in the iMovie project folder?



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