MattMahdi said:
OFF TOPIC...
This isn't the appropriate group to pose the specific question, except that it's the group I'd like eventually to share with. I've been compiling the bits and pieces for years now, pulling from a variety of web sites and videos, and I keep planning to create a disk of SWHS bonus material.
What holds me back is that a few of the sources are widescreen. The Special was 4:3, and so is most of what's out there that refers to it, which means that this will be a 4:3 disc. But the several DVD programs I've experimented with take those widescreen images and stretch them vertically. Harrison Ford and Conan O'Brien look more than a little strange.
Are there simple ways to reframe the widescreen video as letterboxed 4:3 video?
A properly mastered disc will allow for varying aspect ratios. Presuming you had each feature as a seperate title stream you would just leave them all as is and the dvd player would adjust the method of playback depending on the aspect ratio.
that said you could always letterbox your 16:9 matterial, but that would result in a non anamorphic image which declines resolution.
I work on a Mac and use professional software which allows me to set the specific aspect ratio for each track. I presume there are similar software solutions for the PC too but I'm not sure what.
Now having seen the screenshots I want that Zion version even more. I managed to find some info through google but it was simply a newsgroup archive and no way to download. Poo.