Half-D1 dvd-r supplied, need to stretch to 720x?!?

[tedbragg]

A client recorded a seminar directly to DVD-r, using a Philips dvd recorder. I've been driven up the wall with this thing -- the discs are all half-d1 353x480 res, and no editor I've run across or own support that framesize. Ripping them was no problem -- getting them to stretch to 704x or 720x *IS*. What is the preferred method of getting recorded DVDs at half-d1 into a regular, DV NLE like Vegas, MEdia Studio, etc??

[edDV]

A client recorded a seminar directly to DVD-r, using a Philips dvd recorder. I've been driven up the wall with this thing -- the discs are all half-d1 353x480 res, and no editor I've run across or own support that framesize. Ripping them was no problem -- getting them to stretch to 704x or 720x *IS*. What is the preferred method of getting recorded DVDs at half-d1 into a regular, DV NLE like Vegas, MEdia Studio, etc??

Should be 352x480 and interlace. If you double horizontal resolution you get to 704x480i.

In Vegas set a 704x480i project and import. If the import is half wide, right click properties on the clip and set to 4:3 aspect ratio (Pixel Aspect Ratio = 0.9091)

Sorry correction -- Project PAR is 0.9091, clip PAR should be two times that or 1.8182.

[elkfir]

Or you can edit with VideoReDo or MPEG Video Wizard. Or do rough editing and reauthor using TMPGEnc DVD Author.

These programs will accept half d-1 352x480 no problem, with no need to re encode to 704x480.

I rip and edit 352x480 mpegs from my Toshiba set top recorder all the time, using above programs.

[edDV]

Actually one can set a 352x480i project in Vegas (project PAR 1.8182) but it will recode to output.

You only need Vegas for combining with other video or for filters/effects.