Picking the correct zoom in dvdx

[Wackyd]

When I am trying to burn a movie I've never tried to do one before that was full screen and not wide screen. Which is the correct way to encode the movie. There are several options under zoom. Letterbox,Medium,Pan Scan, and Full. I'm guessing full is the one I want to use but I just wanted to make sure. It seemed when I burned it Letterbox that it worked but the images looked a little squished.

[KingJohn]

default ? 16:9/4:3 input

Full screen will chop both sides of the movie, preview it before you convert

[Wackyd]

Keep in mind that the dvd I'm trying to burn is orginally full screen. So I should lose anything by burning it full since that's what the sourch is right?

[KingJohn]

If your making a VCD the output will be PAL/NTSC size

Video-CD PAL (MPEG-1 352x288 25fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

So depending on the source, you may get black borders on a widescreen DVD

[DJRumpy]

I have this same problem. I have a source clip which is anamorphic wide screen 720x480, but when I want to work on it with DVDIt, it says the MPEG2 is 4:3, and not 16:9. Can anyone shed more light on this? I've heard that fullscreen is the correct choice if the source and the targe are both widescreen. I'm assuming I picked the wrong settings as far as source and destination are concerned in TMPGenc.

Also, what is the 2.35:1 ratio for? Is this another widescreen version?