Fullscreen to Widescreen conversion for a Video CD

[Rowin Dincht]

Hello;


I dont know if this is the right forum or not, but ill try here anyway. For the fist part, I want to know a question, with TMPGEnc (latest version out 2.5.10) is there anyway to convert a DiVX movie from 320x240 full screen to a 16:9 movie for a VCD?

Right now I conveted some episode of FLCL with TMPGEnc, although the original is fullscreen, the MPEG that it made is widescreen, then when I burned it to a CD and put it into my stand alone APEX-AD 1500, the entire clip went into a fullscreen movie instead of a widescreen one like I wanted. Is there anyway to fix this problem?

[Buddah]

Basically you need to play around with the settings in TMPGEnc. Open TMPGEnc and close the wizzrd if it pops up. Load you video in the space provided under the image window. Click the "settings" button and select the video tab. There will be a bunch pull down menus. Take a look at the aspect ratio. You can select 16:9 NTSC for the ratio and this should change the size of your video. Try and encode a little bit of a movie and see how it looks. I normally burn DVD's and I am not positive however if you can use a 16:9 aspect ratio for a VCD. I will use this option if I have a movie that takes up the whole screen like one taped from a VCR and I want the final picture to look like a DVD.
The next option which I am sure will work is to select the next tab over, "Advanced." Select the "Video Arrange Method" pull down. If "Full Screen" is selected the movie will end up filling the whole screen, just like on TV no matter how it was encoded. I normally select "Full Screen keep aspect ratio 2" if I am encoding a DIVX movie because the movie is already saved in 16:9 By selecting "Full Screen keep aspect ratio 2" the original size of the picture will be sustained for your new video. Again try it out by encoding a few minute of video and see how it turns out.