I must apologise though, as I mentioned the wrong program in my original posting.
Sorry!Rebel 11_38, the original source of my DVD is:
Resolution: 720 x 576
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
and this is the process I am following:
(1) Using SmartRipper I rip the VOBS
(2) Using DGMPGDEC (not TMPGENC as I wrongly stated in my first posting!) I convert the VOB's to a .d2v file.
(3) Using the VFPAI program, I convert the .d2v file into a "fake" .avi file.
Now when I double click this "fake" .avi file, it reads the original vobs and opens the movie in my DVD player software. Immediately I notice that the widescreen format has been lost and the movie is stretched vertically.
There has been no compression or editing done so far, as you can see.
(4) I then import the "fake" .avi into Premiere and edit away....
So the widescreen presentation is being lost early in the procedure as you can see.
I think as Rebel 11_38 suggested, there is file on the original source DVD that tells the DVD player software or my actual DVD player (connected to the TV) how to present the movie- ie to present in widescreen. Is this correct?
Could one of the files below, on the source DVD, be the "tag" or file that controls this?:
Video_TS.BUP
Video_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
If so, is it just a matter of adding these files to my EDITED DVD and the widescreen presentation should return????
The only solution I can think of for my problem, is copying the 4 files above (the .BUP's and .IFO's) to my edited DVD with my newly created edited VOBS and hope they "Talk" to my DVD player and tell it to present it in widescreen and NOT STRETCH the image.
Thanks again for everyone's help! Hopefully we're almost there! I look forward to your responses guys....