How to remove side black bars

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Hi,

I converted a PAL DVD to NTSC DVD with Procoder and got a video picture (m2v) framed with black bars on top-bottom, which is OK, and on the left and the right. The picture size has become pretty small. I played the m2v on my PC.

The aspe3ct ratio of the original PAL DVD is [5:4], Pixel [1:1]. Target ratio was set just to 16:9. I am ready to provide other info if required.

Is it possible to remove left and right side black bars? How can I fix it? Thanks.

[jagabo]

There's no such thing as 5:4 DAR for DVD. Deterime whether your PAL source is 4:3 or 16:9 and convert to the same DAR NTSC.

[guns1inger]

Sounds like something got very screwed up along the way, because you should not have ended up with pillarboxing from this type of conversion.

Detail how you converted it to end with vertical bars, as you really need to fix this at the source, not after you have converted.

[vertical]

Thank you!

I do not know what info to provide: from Procoder "Source" or from GSpot. Sorry for the ignorance.

Actually I did it the follwoing way.

I burnt a PAL DVD backup to HD with Nero and got .nrg file. After that I demuxed the audio from the .nrg file with DVD Decryptor.

Then I used Asharp script and load .nrg with it to Procoder and converted the .nrg to 25 PAL and I've got m2v with those bars.

[guns1inger]

That is about as insane a method as I have ever seen posted here.

[vertical]

But what's wrong about it?

I know you are right but I just do not know how to do it properly.

[guns1inger]

.nrg is a disc image file and has absolutely nothing to do with video.

Nero is one of the worst tools to involve in the video making/editing/converting process. I even stopped using it to burn years ago.

It obviously doesn't work or you wouldn't be asking how to fix the output.

You have all the information you need in the previous posts you have made. It has been detailed to you and explained in several different ways. Unfortunately you seem hell-bent on ignoring the advice and inventing your own new methods. I have no problem with that, but I no longer feel like getting involved in 4 or 5 page posts, taking you through everything again in minute detail, only to have you come back a week later with a post like this.

Go and buy multi-format playback gear and stop trying to convert. It will save everyone some misery.

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guns1inger,

I am sorry if I frustrated you. I believe you are right about the previous posts but if you remember there were so many of them and all the information is pretty new to me.

I am not trying to take advantage of anybody's time. If you would have just refer to me to such and such previous posts, that would be OK and quite enough for me.

Thank you anyway.

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Hi,

I did my homework, redid the whole thing and hopefully I’ve got it done right this time.

- I loaded VOBs (movie only) into DGMPDIndex
- I saved the project in DGMPDIndex and received movie.d2v file and 2 AC3 files
- I could not load movie.d2v file into Procoder, neither directly, nor with ASharp script, but I’ve found VFAPICodec that makes it able to load d2v to Procoder
- To use ASharp, I included VFAPICodec into ASharp script as DirectShowSource
- Loaded d2v > VFAPICodec > ASharp to Procoder and converted it.
- After conversion I’ve got m2v file
- Applied dgpulldown on it (from 25 to 29.97 fps)
- Authored “pulldown.m2v” and the audio track I need with TSUNAMI-MPEG and got NTSC DVD.

Everything worked OK but still there some issues.

1. Before authoring I checked “…pulldown.m2v” and the audio track in TSUNAMI-MPEG > Simulation. The audio stops running approximately after 12 min from the beginning and the video runs further to the end without sound. I played the audio track (AC3) that I’ve got from DGMPDIndex on it own, it is fine and the audio runs to the end.

The movie has two audio tracks – English and Spanish. After the English one, I tried to use the Spanish one for authoring and the audio also stops running at the same spot. What’s wrong here?

2. Is the way I loaded d2v (d2v > VFAPICodec > ASharp > Procoder) the right way to do it?

3. The original PAL DVD picture is very sharp. I know that Procoder softens the picture a little during encoding. I set ASharp to (1,3,0) which, I believe, is pretty high. I previewed the picture with ASharp in VirtualDubMod and it looked sharp enough.

But after the encoding, the picture is way softer than the original PAL DVD, I would say a little blurred. Are the settings for ASharp low or the way I loaded the whole thing (d2v > VFAPICodec > ASharp > Procoder) could affect it?

Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

I'd go from d2v -> AviSynth -> Procoder

/Mats

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Hi,

I am close to be able to do it this way too. I changed in the ASharp script "directshow" for "MPEG2" and now I can load d2v to Procoder with ASharp.

I tried to author m2v and AC3 in Muxman instead of TSUNAMI-MPEG and the NTSC DVD I've got has the audio the way it should be which probably means I screwed some settings in TSUNAMI-MPEG but actually I did not touch anything.

I would appreciate if you could advise what changes must be made in the scripts below to have the VirtualDubMod screen splitted for two for me to be able to compare the sharpness of the original d2v and the one tweaked with a sharpener prior to encoding.

The ones that I used for AVIs are:

RestorationScript.avs

Orig_Clip=AVISource("RestorationScript1.avs",false )
Rest_Clip=AVISource("ASharp.avs",false)

# Crop clips for comparison. Clips are cropped to create
# a single complete frame

Orig_Clip_Crop=Crop(Orig_Clip,0,0,360,0).AddBorder s(0,0,4,0)
Rest_Clip_Crop=Crop(Rest_Clip,360,0,0,0)

# Stack the two halves together to finish up
StackHorizontal(Orig_Clip_Crop,Rest_Clip_Crop)


RestorationScript1.avs
AVIsource ("E:\SHARPEN\Image-Machinist.nrg",false)

Thanks!