Byakko
Date Posted: Thu September 14, 2006 10:17 PM
Your best bet would be to make a thread in the General Preservation and Fan Edits > Requests, How-To's, and Technical Discussions forum with a copy of this discussion and ask there what would be the course of action to take.
DarthBalls1138
Date Posted: Thu September 14, 2006 9:27 PM
well the video was vcd resolution and i need it dvd resolution, also its 4:3, it's letterboxed, i need the black bars cut down to 16:9, and i dont understand what you mean by overscan, and I guess mpeg2 would be the best bet for format. thanx
Byakko
Date Posted: Thu September 14, 2006 7:56 PM
Hold on, I'm not finished with that and already I found a way to make it look slightly better. There's no need to include me in the credits, although a copy of the DVD would be awesome.
As for the anamorphic issue, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, the video was rezised to 688x272 and borders were added to reach 720x480 with 2-block overscan in following of FitCD's recommendation. I almoste exclusively encode 4:3 material, so I don't know how to encode anamorphic.
If I understood FitCD correctly, anamorphic for a 2.35:1 source would mean resizing to 688x352, add borders to reach 720x480 and then encode the MPEG2 as 16:9. Ask in one of the forums if that's correct. Also, let me know if you want it to have overscan (all TVs have overscan and eat up some of the image, tha black bars are put so that they don't eat actual parts of the movie) and in what format you want me to send you the finished video (lossless, MPEG2, MPEG4, etc).
DarthBalls1138
Date Posted: Wed September 13, 2006 5:30 PM
Not much change but so far its better than nothing and better than I could do, lol, thank you for your work on this, i'll credit you on the dvd and send you a copy of it too if you want, also if you want me to help in any way on xmen just let me know, oh, and would it be possible for you to upscale the clip to dvd resolution and cut the top and bottom off to make it anamorphic, I'm an idiot at that stuff, if you don't I'll figure out a way but it would probably just downgrade your work and I don't really wanna see that happen, thanx again
Byakko
Date Posted: Wed September 13, 2006 5:13 PM
Wow, this one's extremely difficult because it has so little detail left. A very quick first approach netted this:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/975/1stcompay9.png
as you can see, there's hardly any difference, but I'll keep at it and report back.
Byakko
Date Posted: Tue September 12, 2006 9:24 PM
Will download and examine it ASAP.
DarthBalls1138
Date Posted: Sat September 09, 2006 3:19 PM
Just so that you know I'm trying to make an extended edition of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and this clip was not available on the DVD but I want to include it, as of now it is too jarring, I just need it to fit in between the DVD footage without it taking people out of the movie. Thanks again. I'll still help on subtitles, I don't fully know how but once I figure it out I have no problem watching a good show like X-men and typing what they say lol. I put my clip on rapidshare, I hope it worked right, here is the link: http://rapidshare.de/files/32541053/gays_who_are_gay.mpg.html