16:9 to 4:3

[JerryQ77]

Is there anyway using TMPG to convert a dvd rip from its original setting of 16:9 to 4:3 so that the movie fills the screen on a 4:3 TV ?

[taurusthebull]

you want to hit "settings" button, then your "advance" tab. you`ll see "video arrange method"; put that on "center (custom)" setting. once you do that you can make the screen size any size you want. on a "16:9", i usually set it at 740 x 640 to get a fullscreen. i`ve tried the other settings and for some reason they won`t give you a complete full screen. it`s usually doesn`t make it wide enough or high enough. that "center (custom)" setting will do the trick............later!

[JerryQ77]

Thanks that worked perfectly

[geek rock]

just out of interest, why would anyone want to do this?

you lose anything from 25% to 45% of the picture by cropping to 4:3.

take a look..

original


cropped


i know which picture i'd prefer..

[medievil]

16X9 to 4X3 wouldn't even look like that since it would drop video from both sides. Also everyone will have the "Sqeezed Head" look bacuse the aspect changed.

[Bruce Simpson]

I regularly crop 16:9 down to 4:3 when backing up DVDs to SVCD for several reasons..

1. 16:9 in SVCD wastes a lot of bandwidth and screenspace to those black bands top and bottom. Even on a 29" TV set you end up getting a picture that isn't very tall. I paid for a full 29" picture-tube and I'm blowed if I'm going to waste any of it

2. On an original DVD you can use the Zoom function to blow a 16:9 image up so that it nearly fills the vertical axis. Because the DVD uses anamorphic recording, this zooming doesn't affect the vertical resolution. If you try to zoom an SVCD recording made with 16:9 aspect ratio, it becomes very pixelated because you're effectively lowering the number of pels per inch quiet significantly.

As one of the guides on this site points out, you can try to set the animporphic mode in SVCD but the result (at least on my player) is that the resulting file jumps and jitters like crazy.

Before I crop to 4:3 I usually watch the movie and, if it's obvious that such a crop would leave out too much of the action, I still crop, but not so heavily -- leaving much smaller black bands at top and bottom.