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what is the easiest way to convert to 16x9 from 2.35:1 releases....most of the time its from 480x480 letterbox releases but occasionally itd be dvd compliant mpgs at 720x480?(i think)...... im not worried about cropping the edges....i dont want to strech it into place....

i was playing around in tmpgenc for a bit...but all i did was strech the cropped 1.85 video back to 2.35...
what should i set source ar at in the advanced settings(i had 16x9 display)?and arrange method in the clip menu(i had center keep ar).....

id rather use canopus anyway...so if there is a template there i didnt see let me know also....

looter

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um.....what?

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There is no specific template for it, and although it's not particularly difficult, it's a pretty bad idea to do it, as you would lose quite a bit of resolution.

You would essentially be zooming in on the 16:9 area of the 2.35 release, which already doesn't use the full 480 vertical resolution, and you would resize that up to fit the screen. If it's letterboxed within a 4:3 fullscreen, you are looking at around 270 lines of vertical resolution being resized up to 480.

It's not a bad idea if you are encoding for a lower resolution format like VCD, but not a good idea for DVD.

Do you have a good reason for wanting to do this, or...?

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high again pres

4:3 would zoom into the full 480 and that might not be worth it...but 1.85 would still be letterboxed...just not as much....theyre for my kid on her 19" tv which sucks with 2.35.....so after we watch em on mine i want to zoom em cause she hates the "really skinny movies".....since its for a 19" i dont think too much quality loss would matter too much....especially for a kid

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just use tmpgenc and under..fuck im not opening it...some settings there a full screen option.

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high again pres

4:3 would zoom into the full 480 and that might not be worth it...but 1.85 would still be letterboxed...just not as much....theyre for my kid on her 19" tv which sucks with 2.35.....so after we watch em on mine i want to zoom em cause she hates the "really skinny movies".....since its for a 19" i dont think too much quality loss would matter too much....especially for a kid

looter

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sorry if im confusing you guys

i want to make a 16x9 widescreen out of 2.35 source

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If your source is anamorphic 720 x 480 @ 2.35:1, you need to crop out the centre of the image at a resolution of around 512 x 340, give or take a little depending on the source.

You need to resize the cropped area to fill the screen @ 720 x 480, or whichever target resolution you need, and voila, there's your anamorphic video.

If your source is non-anamorphic 720 x 480, you are looking at a crop resolution of around 512 x 256.

If your source is 480 x 480, the crop resolution would be around 342 x 256.

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the crop sizes you gave me are definitly working....thanx.....

the problem i am having though is in tmpgenc..ive been playing with the source aspect ratio in advanced menu and the video arrange options in the clip menu..but i can only letterbox the sides of the finished video instead of zooming in on the center

ie: i wind up with black bars on top.. bottom and sides now...i want to zoom in and eliminate the side bars


why do i always seem to wind up in uncharted territory?
looter

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Originally posted by zootedlooter
[B]the problem i am having though is in tmpgenc..ive been playing with the source aspect ratio in advanced menu and the video arrange options in the clip menu..but i can only letterbox the sides of the finished video instead of zooming in on the center

ie: i wind up with black bars on top.. bottom and sides now...i want to zoom in and eliminate the side bars

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thanx for all your time on this and other threads pres

step 1 accomplished
this time i used your settings....except i used the center(keep aspect ratio) in the video arrange tab.....worked better for me
thank you

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looks like im gonna have to work with vbrs now...im getting jumpy scenes(dont know how else to put it)..... the movie im doing is darkness dvdrip 480x480 to give you some idea of what needs to be done......according to bitrate viewer its a vbr of 1825min - 3062max....i tried running one scene(boy on a swing) at 1 pass and 2 pass.....even going as high as 4000 and i still get negative results

is there anything i can do?
looter

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Check the framerate of the original file and the framerate you are encoding to. TmpegEnc sucks big style at adjusting the FR and will always result in jerky motion.

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thanx assasin....

framerates are the same....im wondering if i drop frames from ntsc 29.7fps to ntsc film 23.976 if it might help the problem..... not in the mood to fuck with it right now...kinda burnt

zootedsnoozer

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normally i would be using canopus procoder....but this time i cant get a video preview from these mpgs.........strange...usually tmpgenc that cant open shit

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looter n. : someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]

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[B]thanx assasin....

framerates are the same....im wondering if i drop frames from ntsc 29.7fps to ntsc film 23.976 if it might help the problem.....

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... unless it's some crappy SVCD conversion

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hahahahahahahahahahahahaha....thatd be my crappy conversion......i had already reencoded this from 25 fps to 29.97...thats why i was getting the stuttering during reencoding......

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you may say im wrong for this but....

i ran the problematic scene through 4 different variables..and watched through zoomplayer...

23.97 pulldown enabled progressive
23.97 pulldown enabled interlaced
29.97 pulldown disabled progressive
29.97 pulldown disabled interlaced

the first 3 gave me interlacing lines as the kid swung across the screen which will later result in jerky video on my standalone

29.97 interlace was the only one that gave me a smooth picture..any idea why?

so heres another crappy svcd conversion from the looter
haha

as far as those sites go....theyre great for guides and forums but your right......its almost impossible to find anything relevent...i need a good reference guide that covers all the basics


thanx again for all the help.....i can almost garuntee youll be seeing me again soon....if you can think of anything i might of done wrong on this last shot keep the thread open

zootedlater

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Originally posted by zootedlooter
[B]you may say im wrong for this but....

i ran the problematic scene through 4 different variables..and watched through zoomplayer...

23.97 pulldown enabled progressive
23.97 pulldown enabled interlaced
29.97 pulldown disabled progressive
29.97 pulldown disabled interlaced

the first 3 gave me interlacing lines as the kid swung across the screen which will later result in jerky video on my standalone

29.97 interlace was the only one that gave me a smooth picture..any idea why?

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dvdrip dl from the newsgroups

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i just looked twciso released this as an ntsc svcd and a pal dvdr.....i got it as pal svcd....someone must have fucked with it

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looter n. : someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]

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dvdrip dl from the newsgroups

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i just looked twciso released this as an ntsc svcd and a pal dvdr.....i got it as pal svcd....someone must have fucked with it

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You haven't ticked 3:2 pulldown under the Advanced tab, have you? That's an extremely common mistake. It has to be the ticked under the Video tab where you set the frame rate, resolution, bit rate, etc.

It's very possible that the SVCD you have is a bad conversion, and there's nothing you can do about it. That would certainly be consistent with the fact that it looked best when converted to 29.97 interlaced.

Actually, tell me exactly what the movie is. I want to get this sorted out now. If necessarry, I will download a bit of it and have a look myself PM me if you don't want to post it in the forum.

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