Originally posted by: LeoneNut
Actually ADM's guide is what got me into this stuff in the first place. I had investigated a few years ago, and found it way too convoluted to do this. Now the programs are so much better.
I think ADM converts to anamorphic by doing an AVI (compressed via lossless huffyuv) from an AVISynth script in VirtualDubMod. Then using this AVI in TMPGEnc to create the Mpeg-2 file. This was the way I was doing it, until I discovered that you can feed the AVISynth script straight into TMPGEnc (which saves a lot of time and disk space).
Actually ADM's guide is what got me into this stuff in the first place. I had investigated a few years ago, and found it way too convoluted to do this. Now the programs are so much better.
I think ADM converts to anamorphic by doing an AVI (compressed via lossless huffyuv) from an AVISynth script in VirtualDubMod. Then using this AVI in TMPGEnc to create the Mpeg-2 file. This was the way I was doing it, until I discovered that you can feed the AVISynth script straight into TMPGEnc (which saves a lot of time and disk space).
So, using the script fed straight into TMPGEnc, you won't have ~90 GB avi files floating around? Is that why it's better?
I have a project where I may need to do some 4:3>16:9 upconverting, as well as some cropping (so that everything has the same aspect ratio), and I am not very technically skilled here yet. (All I have is Womble and DVD-Lab Pro). I definitely prefer GUI software to scripting. I am just trying to figure out the easiest way to do this part of the process. Thanks for any help.
Maybe this comment would be better made on in the help forum. Sorry to get off-topic.