another 4:3 to 16x9 encoding question

[mazinz]

hello,
i know that if i have a 4:3 source and want it to match a 1:85, 16x9 ratio, i had to cut 60 pixels off the top and bottom of the 4:3 pic and encode (using tmpg) to 16x9.

but what if the pic i need to encode the 4:3 to has a ratio of 2:35:1? How many pixels would i need to remove then? thanks again

[mazinz]

found a fix.


ok if you cut 60 pixels from a 4:3 clip you dont really loose that much, since the ratio is 1:85 it works out nicely

However my current project being a 2:35:1 film, i found i had to cut 106 pixels off the top and bottom. This took out way too much from the 4:3 clip so i have this work around>>>

without being too lengthy, i shrunk the picture size of the clip. I found that after cutting the pixels that gave a rough size of 374 (from the orignal 720x480 clip). Now since 374 isnt a real pic standard i had to round it to the closest size of 368. I do nothing, i just have tmpg perform a simple
encode while resizing the pic to 720x368.

next i take the new 720x368 size pic, put it back in tmpg. I encode it as 16x9, resize to 720x480 and under the clip frame settings on the arrangement tab, i had it set to "center". This took everything and made it match my source that i plan to mix it with in every aspect as well as not having to cut anything away from the original 4:3 clip-WOO