Panasonic ProCinema footage to XviD conversion?

[stantheman1976]

I'm shooting in Pro Cinema Mode on a Panasonic PV-GS400 and using Vegas 7. I'm having no trouble exporting correctly and encoding to MPEG-2 for DVD. How can I encode the foorage to XviD properly. Using an all in one like Auto Gordian Knot the foorage is not handled properly and appears stretched vertically.

[racer-x]

It needs to be resized to square pixels, like 720 x 400 or 640 x 360 for instance...........you want a widescreen ratio of about 1.78:1.

[stantheman1976]

Question is what program can best do that for XviD? I've never used anything other than Auto GK for XviD conversion.

[manono]

AutoGK can do it for you. Now I don't know in what DAR these videos are capped. Maybe racer-x will let us know. And I don't know what DAR AutoGK is assuming them to be. But evidently AutoGK is assuming the wrong DAR. Anyway, after opening the video (AVI? MPG?), go into the Hidden Options (CTRL-F9), and in the bottom left of the screen check the "Override Input AR" box and change it to whatever it's supposed to be. There are only 3 choices (4:3, 16:9, Original) and since one is already ticked (and wrong, evidently), you have 2 remaining choices.

If no one comes along to tell you what the DAR of the source is, experiment with a couple of short videos to find out.

http://www.autogk.me.uk/modules.php?name=TutorialEN#6

[stantheman1976]

I had no clue Auto GK had an options menu hidden. You really do learn something new every day. That worked great. I just used the override AR option and chose 16:9. Thanks guys.