Converting a video from 1280x532 to 1280x720 easiest way

[bjbef440]

Hi all,

Im new to the whole converting thing. I hate black bars, is there a simple way to convert or encode a video from

1280x532 to 1280x720 without stretching or quality loss i have tried converting with avs which works great

sometimes and other times the audio goes out, but its fine on the original file.

Hope you understand what im on about lol,

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks Barry

Newbie

[Atak_Snajpera]

Hi all,

Im new to the whole converting thing. I hate black bars, is there a simple way to convert or encode a video from

1280x532 to 1280x720 without stretching or quality loss i have tried converting with avs which works great

sometimes and other times the audio goes out, but its fine on the original file.

Hope you understand what im on about lol,

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks Barry

Newbie

1280x532 is correct resolution for 2.40:1 movies. No Idea why you want to crop that??? Do you really want to remove information from frame?

[poisondeathray]

The black bars are probably already cropped. When you watch it on a 16:9 display, the display puts on the black bars (letterboxing) to keep the aspect ratio.

The other (BAD) options are to stretch it to 16:9 (people look tall and skinny) , or zoom in (lose picture area)

[bjbef440]

Hi

I just like to see the movie full screen I don't like the black bars.

Thanks Barry.

[poisondeathray]

Hi

I just like to see the movie full screen I don't like the black bars.

Thanks Barry.

Again, the (BAD) options are to

a) stretch it, so people look tall and skinny. You would resize to 1280x720

b) zoom in, so you lose parts of the picture, and it will become softer. You're essentially scaling up the picture

You can do those with your software player options, or HDTV options during playback - ie. it's not necessary to re-encode the file. that's the "easiest", and nothing will go out of sync or other problems

[bjbef440]

Hi poisondeathray

Thanks for your help looks like I've got to suffer black bars .

Thanks Barry.

[poisondeathray]

Hi poisondeathray

Thanks for your help looks like I've got to suffer black bars .

Thanks Barry.

You don't have to "suffer", just by a cinema display 2.35:1 . Several companies make them, philips, vizio a few others. (ok maybe your paycheque will "suffer")

[bjbef440]

Lol thanks ��

[_Al_]

You can always zoom-in on any device. On Android tablet, using BS player for example by simply moving two fingers apart to full your screen(cropping sides), on PC using MPC-HC for example Video Frame/Touch window from outside. Using TV you simply zoom-in, I'm sure other devices, softwares are out there ...

Otherwise you have to re-encode- not good, understand re-encoding is worsening quality of your video.

To crop sides, using avisynth for example, crop(168,0,168,0) to get 944x532 resolution, then you encode. Aspect ratio stays the same, but you are loosing sides of your video.

Even worse, stretching your image to fill the 16:9 screen (but tablets have no 16:9 screen, what then again?) using Avisynth resize for example LanczosResize(1280,720). Not only you re-encode video but you are changing aspect ratio as well. This is butchering of a video.

Black bars are "a brain" problem, not a real one, TV just have to be big enough to not be upset too much if video image "gets smaller"with movie aspect ratios.

[bjbef440]

Thanks AL