converting 4:3 letterboxed avi files to anamorphic?

[jakewoodblues]

Is there a way to convert a 4:3 letterboxed .avi file to an anamorphic mpeg-2 file? I've been making some dvd's and I've converted the letterboxed avi's to mpeg-2's and the resulting dvd's appear on my tv as letterboxed. All well and fine, but when I play the dvd on my pc with the hi-def widescreen display, the result is letter-& pillar-boxed.

I'd like the picture to fill my widescreen pc display and appear letterboxed on my tv.
I use tmpgenc 2.5 for video conversion, but if there's a way, I'd be willing to get other software.



Thanks!
Scott

[Baldrick]

Zoom on your pc?

Or crop the black borders and resize to 720x480. It's possible with tmpgenc 2.5.

[jakewoodblues]

Will that make the file truly anamorphic? If so, how do do I crop the picture?

[Khaver]

You will need to crop off the top and bottom of your avi files till you get an aspect ratio of 16:9. If your avi's were 640x480 you would crop 60 lines from the top and 60 lines from the bottom. This will give 640x360 which is a ratio of 16:9. When you import these into your DVD authoring program it should recognize them as 16:9 and create anamorphic 16:9 DVD's.

What DVD authoring program do you use? There might be a setting to crop the video before encoding to mpeg-2.

[jakewoodblues]

OK, I'm game.

How do you crop the image? (I'm, such a noob )

I use dvdit pro 6 BTW

[AlanHK]

I do that using Avisynth and HCEnc.

For instance, some TV shows made in widescreen that on DVD were letterboxed into 4:3 frames, I cropped the hard letterboxing off and made them anamorphic widescreen. Then used HCEnc to make MPEG from these:

AVISource("B3.avi")
# 720x576 letterboxed
Crop(10,88, -16, -86)
LanczosResize(720, 576)

I use AvsP to finetune the cropping, it has a crop editor.

[jagabo]

Jeezus, this topic covered here every week. Try a little searching.

[jakewoodblues]

Thanks for your help.
And Jagabo....nobody's forcing you to answer. If you got nothing constructive to say...Bug off!