CCE 2.70 - How do you get it to encode 16:9 Anamorphic!?

[Viper187]

I was having a hell of a time with avisynth because it threw the audio so far out of sync it's not funny, so I switched to using dgmpegdec/DGindex with VFAPIconv to frameserve to CCE, but the cropping I do with the D2V is undone by CCE (or is VFAPI ignoring the crop setting?). Isn't there some setting to make it encode anamorphic? What am I doing wrong here?

(video source is M2V from a DVD)

[guns1inger]

You need to feed CCE a video resized to the correct proportions, including black bars if necessary (anything with an aspect ratio higher than 1.776:1 requires them. CCE will encode with a 16:9 flag so widescreens can resize accordingly.

[Viper187]

I've encoded with it cropped to 546x364, which should be about 1.85:1 according to something I found on Google, and using the Fullscreen No Margin, Keep aspect ratio in TMPGEnc (16x19 output) and get no black bars. Burned and played fine. That's what I want with CCE, 16x9 - fullscreen arrange - no margins. I seem to recall this working with the avisynth script & CCE 2.67/2.70 that threw the damn audio like a minute out of sync (LanczosResize(720,480,87,58,546,364)), but it's not working this way. Is there a workaround?

[guns1inger]

I get an AR of closer to 1.5, which cannot be made anamorphic without squeezing it horozontally and getting vertical black bars.

Also, tmpgenc has resize features that CCE does not have. CCE's heritage is studio work, where it is assumed that you have your assets correct before encoding. Hence it does not have a huge range of filters and other superfluous feature like tmpgenc.

Your script will have been distorting the clip to get it to fit to full D1 ntsc.

To get anamorphic out of this, you will have to resize to a resolution of 594 x 480 and flesh out the sides to 720, or go 4:3 at 720 x 436. An AR of 1.85 would give you a vertical resolution of 295 pixels before resizing.