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Anamorphic widescreen (Help Please)

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Hello,

I'm working on my "Thunderball" project, and I would like to make my DVD Anamorphic 16:9 widescreen to fit the new letterbox T.V. sets..

So far, I have taken the original widescreen Laserdisc of the film and captured it with Adobe to my PC. Now I have a 4:3 interlaced (720 x 480) NTSC master. I'm using Adobe Premier Pro & Adobe Encore to make my project...

What do I do?

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You'll have to re-encode the video to anamorphic, but unless you are willing to do a lot of extra work/filtering, it isn't going to look very good. Blowing up a non-anamorphic transfer to anamorphic actually degrades the video. You need a master that has more video resolution than 720x480 (i.e. the original film) for it to be worthwhile.

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Regarding the merits or otherwise of converting letterboxed to anamorphic, this was discussed at length some time ago:
this thread

To convert, you will need to first IVTC the video to make it a progressive 23.976fps.
Then crop the existing black bars, stretch the picture vertically by 33%, and finally add in new black bars if necessary.

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