Possible to Prevent Video Stretch?

[johan the olive]

I'm doing a project for a Media Literacy class in school with Sony's PSP comercial. The best version I can find is (roughly) 320x240. I want to convert it to a dvd but have it retain a specific resolution (1.5 times the original so as not to ruin the quality). Is their some way to prevent a dvd player from stretching the picture out to fit the screen and destroy the quality? Couldn't find anything when I searched for this...Thanks!

Here is a link to the video: http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1626/

[lordsmurf]

Encode it to video at a set size. Make a video with the image that is like 30 seconds long. Play it on the player, then hit PAUSE when presenting.

This is a complex question, if you want to do JPEG image on disc. Not all players act the same. Best make a video.

Use Photoshop and Premiere. Open the ad, resize as wanted, then pad the image out to a 720x540 canvas. Save a copy, name it x540 (for archive). Then resize it to 720x480 and save a new copy, name it x480. Load this 720x480 image into Premiere on the timeline. Drag it out to 30 seconds or so, and then encode out an MPEG file (export with MC/Adobe or a CCE or Procoder plugin).

This is really easy to do, similar to making a DVD menu the "manual" way, or importing pieces to make a complex motion menu.

You could also author a DVD and use this as the still menu. Have no content, put black buttons in the overscan or the padded portion of the image.

[johan the olive]

Very sorry for making it unclear. It's a video. Wish it were just an image lol

[Nelson37]

You could do all that, I'm not sure why.

You could also use the Center option in TMPgenc, and/or after custom resizing and masking - you need to put black borders around the image to fill out the area. Vdub or a half dozen others will accomplish this quite easily.

Not sure what your goal is, but I hope the video you have looks better than the one on the link - that will look like crap on a decent size TV.

I would find a better video or use something else. Check with Sony and/or their advertisers, somewhere there is a better quality version.

[rumplestiltskin]

TMPGenc Express is actualy a bit easier to use and will do exactly what you ask while "editing" the video portion of the clip within the app. I've done this many times to shrink DVD video down so I really do get all of the width of the movie (and not just the letterbox'd display which overscans, of course, on the TV). Just keep the same aspect ratio as you reduce the size (it's not a "crop").

[lordsmurf]

You could also use the Center option in TMPgenc, and/or after custom resizing and masking - you need to put black borders around the image to fill out the area.

Yeah, do that.
Since it's just video. At first I thought you had an image.

[johan the olive]

You could also use the Center option in TMPgenc, and/or after custom resizing and masking - you need to put black borders around the image to fill out the area.

Yeah, do that.
Since it's just video. At first I thought you had an image.

I wanted to do the black borders but i'm clueless as to how. can you plz explain? thanks!

[rumplestiltskin]

With TMPGenc Express (and the regular version of the app, presumably) you won't need to mask. Just center and alter the size; you should end up with the black border you want automatically.