I've been searching here for the last few days trying to figure this out but I'm having trouble. I have a DVD that is letterbox 4:3 that I would like to reencode as 16:9 trimming off the black bars on the top and bottom. The DVD is NOT anamorphic widescreen but that's what I hope to end up with.
I almost had it working in TMPGEng but I somehow lost the audio. I think starting over from the VOB files is my best bet right now.
The movie is Reservoir Dogs (looks like I don't have the 10th anniversary edition that is Anamorphic Widescreen)
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dude!!!!
keep source ratio 4:3 (as it is)
Keep output ratio 16:9 (what you want)
then in the 'clip frame' setting, 'arrange setting' button & select 'arrange method' to 'centre(custom size)' & strech the video cutting out the black boarders....
don't know why you want to do this but this is how i would.. in tmpeg -
You're wasting your time. You can't reencode a letterbox fomat to an anamorphic format. The anamorphic format contains more vertical resolution than a letterbox format, and reencoding a letterbox video can't create high quality resolution missing in the original.
During the original creation of an anamorphic transfer, flags are inserted on the DVD so that the format will be correctly read by the DVD player and DTV.
See Anamorphic Widescreen TV for details of this process and images of the results compared to letterbox. Unless you have a digital 16x9 TV, you won't get the full viewing advantage of the higher resolution anamorphic format. -
You didn't say if you're a PAL or NTSC guy...anyway....
PAL
make sure you can crop 72 pixels at the top and 72 pixels at the bottom of the picture, otherwise this method won't work. If said cropping is doable (i.e. you're not cutting part of the active area), then crop this amount of black, resize to 720x576 and encode at 16:9.
NTSC
again, make sure you can crop 60 pixels at the top and 60 pixels at the bottom of the picture. If you can, crop, resize to 720x480 and encode at 16:9
If the movie is interlaced, you should crop, separate the fields, resize to half the final resolution, weave the fields back and encode at 16:9. This is to be done via avisynth though.
I'm not an NTSC expert, but I figure you should inverse-telecine your source (if NTSC) before you import the movie into tmpgenc or whatever tool you're planning to use.Sorry, I had to go see about a girl -
The source is NTSC, and here is why I would want to do this. There is no real setting on my TV that will properly show the movie without distorting it. On a 16:9 setting everyone is short since the movie is 4:3. If I set the tv to 4:3 then I not only have black bars on the top and bottom, now I have them on the left and right. The ZOOM setttings start to chop video from the left and right.
If the movie were 16:9, and I set my TV to 16:9 everything would match up great!
I'll give those ideas a shot today. -
I've done this a few times on letterbox dvd's. You can't actually create a 'true' anamorphic image of course, has as been stated above. What you're doing is allowing you to watch the movie in 16:9 mode on your tv as opposed to using the zoom option or cinema option. This is basically because these options can be really poorly implemented on some tv's and on mine just don't work at all.
DVD rebuilder allows you to convert from 4:3 to 16:9 as an option
and DIKO allows you to do this with widescreen avi's.
I would recommend using DIKO in conjunction with cce for converting avi's to dvd.
DVD rebuilder will do all the work for, as well as compressing the dvd.
http://www.vmesquita.com/en/
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_rebuilder_tutorial.cfm -
Be aware, unless the original aspect ratio is exactly 1.776, you will have black bars top and bottom. Fact of life - most movies, unless shot for TV or direct to DVD release have an aspect ratio greater than the arbitrary 16:9 chosen for widescreen TV. The oly way to remove them completely is to zoom in and cut the ends off.
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