How to make non-anamorphic OOT DVDs anamorphic?

Author: pmcau
Date: 17-May-2006, 9:27 PM

Author: pmcau
Time: 17-May-2006 9:27 PM
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Hi there
Anyone have an easy way of doing this? Running the upcoming non-anamorphic OOT discs through some kind of process to crop them into true anamorphic 16:9? Realise this won't improve the quality of course but at least on my widescreen TV it won't be a postage stamp swimming in a sea of black...
cheers!

Author: zombie84
Time: 17-May-2006 9:55 PM
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Yes, you can rip them to your computer, crop off the bars and re-encode it to be anamorphic.

Hopefully you wont have to because hopefully this rumor is just a rumor.

Author: Scruffy
Time: 18-May-2006 1:39 AM
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Surely your widescreen TV has a zoom mode to fit non-anamorphic letterboxed content to the screen? Every wide TV I've seen over the years can do this.

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Author: Knightmessenger
Time: 18-May-2006 1:42 AM
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Yes, tv's do have a zoom mode but it looks really bad. Even with a letterbox transfer having less resolution, ripping it to computer and reencoding it as anamorphic will look much better than tv zoom.

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Author: Moth3r
Time: 18-May-2006 4:15 AM
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This old thread might be relevant reading now:
Letterboxed Widescreen vs. Anamorphic Widescreen Discussion

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Author: 20th Century Mark
Time: 18-May-2006 2:19 PM
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Does anyone know if DVDs can be made anamorphic using Nero 6 ?

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 18-May-2006 6:08 PM
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This is a much, much, much more detailed process than something that can be done On The Fly. For those thinking about it, you'll best be served by Learning how to use Gordian Knot's implementation of VirtualDubMod and AVISynth. Even still, you're upsizing a non-anamorphic picture to an anamorphic picture, so the computer is only making a best guess. However, the results can look pretty good. I used this technique on Hannibal and Harry Potter 3 in specific.

You'll need tons of drive space for the resulting AVI, which will then need to be re-compressed back to M2V. If you can frameserve, you'll be able to cut out the drive space need. I, however, always have messy results from frameserving. You'll probably need, what 200GB free for the AVI alone? Can anybody confirm that?

We still don't know if this will be progressive, interlaced, telecined or what. I'm hoping the material is at least 23.976 fps progressive, because IVTC'ing a 2 hour film will be a total mess.

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