Aspect ratio problem

[Dr.Pepper]

Hello!

At first I want to excuse myself for starting a thread with a similar subject already there but I feel that my problem is different from the other ones.

So, what's the problem!?
I recorded a TV-documentation with my Panasonic DMR-E85HEG-S. The doku was aired in 4:3 but with 16:9 information included. So if you have a 16:9 TV, what I have, it covers the full screen.
The problem starts when I want to export the doku to my PC. After recording it on a DVD-RAM I use TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress or TMPGEnc MPEG Editor to import it on the PC to cut out comercials and then burn it on a DVD.

Well, somewhere in this process the 16:9 information get lost and I get a DVD which shows only 4:3 with black borders on the top and the bottom of the TV. - No more full screen pop up.

During all stages of the process TMPGEnc tells me that the video stream ist 4:3. I already tried to force TMPGEnc to other Aspect ratios but it didn't help.

It would be nice if anyone could give me a hint what I'm doing wrong.
Many TIA!

Cu @ll
Dr.Pepper

PS: Plz excuse my bad english...

[guns1inger]

Your english is fine. It's actually a pretty clear description of your problem. A couple of questions to add to the detail.

If you play back the DVD-Ram recording, is it 4:3 or 16:9 ? If it is 4:3, then you can either zoom in with your TV, or crop and resize to get 16:9 footage back.

I suspect this is the case, only because even if tmpgenc didn't recognise the 16:9 flag, it would give you ananmorphically stretched video as 4:3.

If you want it back to true 16:9, then I suspect you will have to crop the black bars, resize the video vertically, then encode with 16:9 flags.

[Dr.Pepper]

If I play back the DVD-RAM (before I do anything with any program) it plays in 16:9 no borders at all.

After TMPGEnc I got a picture with black borders on top and bottom but no borders on the left or right side of the screen.

The interesting thing is, I tried to play the DVD-RAM unmodified movie in various Software DVD-players on my PC and I got always the same picture as if I had processed it with TMPGEnc (borders at the top and bottom).

Maybe I had to live with that.

Anyway what's this croping thing? - Never did this.
Could you please recommand me one or two programs which aren't to difficult? - Many TIA

BTW: Thx for your fast answer.

Cu
Dr.Pepper