Originally posted by: dark_jedi
now my question is when i transfer to my hd through my canopus in widescreen will it be in widescreen on the finished dvd or is there more to it i already did the first set but it wasnt widescreen and it turned out pretty good,but i am curious if it will remain widescreen for me or are there more steps to make it anamorphic widescreen
The laserdiscs are letterboxed widescreen, if you don't do any resizing then the resulting DVD will be letterboxed widescreen too.now my question is when i transfer to my hd through my canopus in widescreen will it be in widescreen on the finished dvd or is there more to it i already did the first set but it wasnt widescreen and it turned out pretty good,but i am curious if it will remain widescreen for me or are there more steps to make it anamorphic widescreen
If you want to make it anamorphic widescreen, you must crop then resize vertically by 33.3%. The exact method depends on your choice of post-processing.
Regarding the "softening" misconception, see this thread.