Can I resize an anamorphic widescreen to the 4:3 screen.

[vifa84]

Hello,
Is it possible to resize an avi that is for example: 640x272 to dvd 4:3 and fill the screen without looking egg shapped? You can do it if you keep the letterbox shape with borders. But I guess i'm asking can you convert it to 4:3 fullscreen with the proper aspect? The only way I see is to crop the sides but that causes a loss of video quality, similar to zooming in on a picture. Maybe it has to be done from the orginal source.

thanks
vifa84

[celtic_druid]

Cropping the sides is the only way without stretching the picture. Thing is that you are cropping off close to 40%. Best to leave it as is.

[guns1inger]

Even if you had the DVD, cropping and zooming 2.35:1 material to full screen is going to look pretty average. Why do you want to commit an act of such butchery ?

[jtoolman2000]

Yeah, what is this LOVE some of us have with the old fashioned full screen - loose 40% of the original image anyway?

[guns1inger]

I have nothing against 4:3 - I have many great films shot in 1.33:1, and that's how I want to see them. But I also have many great films shot in very wide ARs, and that's how I want to see those.

[vifa84]

Yeah, I like 16:9 as well, but I have some releatives that don't have a widescreen display and they asked me if I could make some of my movies full screen for them.
thanks

[Barnabas]

vifa84,

TMPGEnc can do what you want. It will chop off the sides, so looks like pan and scan, BUT it just takes what's in the middle, so unlike a true pan and scan, if the action changes from center to the side, you may not see what's going on.