cinema format vs formated for tv

[casba]

Can someone tell me the settings for converting from cinema format to tv using TMPGEnc. These are my current settings...MPEG-1 352x288 25fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 192kbps and the aspect ratio is 1:1 vga

What i'm wanting to do if possable is take a movie like the ones that get released as vcds like monsters inc.....we were soldiers and lotr and watch them formatted for tv

thanks
casba44@hotmail.com

[Guiboche]

Who in the heck would want to watch a movie that has been formatted to fit your TV?

[casba]

me....hehe

when watching on big screen tv..I hate having the black spaces above and below the movie

[Guiboche]

Well those black bars are there for a reason. So you can watch the movie in it's full aspect ratio that was intended by the director.

Read more:
http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/production_a_z/anamorphic.htm

http://www.widescreen.org/

I suggest keeping those black bars

[casba]

Thank you Guiboche...I now have a better understanding....much appreciated

[Guiboche]

Glad you now understand why Letterboxing is so important! Now be sure to avoid those "Full-Screen" DVDs. They are evil

Guiboche

[JJamez]

I do this sometimes myself, when dealing with a movie that has very large letterboxing - the type where the actual movie constitutes about 1/2 of my standard 4:3 TV screen. Personally I find it incredibly distracting, so at the expense of some detail, I like to boost the height a bit and chop off some width.

Its just some simple math (you want to keep the aspect ratio - don't just stretch the height), but its not the easiest thing to explain here - if there is any interest I could try doing a guide for it - otherwise, I'm sure most can figure out the percentages, how much to chop off horizontally in relation to how much you increase the height, etc..

BTW, only do this if you're ripping a DVD or using a high quality source (even a good SVCD or Divx) - reencoding a 1150bps VCD just ain't worth it.

JJ