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Aspect Ratio Adjustment

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So let's just say I have "this one movie" (heretofore referred to as "this one movie").

It has been encoded as a DVD and provided for download as a TS_VIDEO folder for easy burning, so everything is fine there. However, "this one movie" has had its aspect ratio changed from 2.35:1 to 1.33:1 at some point in it's capture/encoding process.

Since I'm not looking for anything fancy... no menus, titles, video enhancement or anything... what would be the easiest way to take "this one movie", crop out a black border surrounding the picture, and redo the aspect ratio to 2.35:1, adding in the black bars at the top and bottom (so as to make it a better fit for a non-widescreen television) and reencode it for easy burning on DVD?

I'm looking for simple and fast (I fully understand that the reencoding itself may take some time, however) and prefereably something involving a straight-forward GUI rather then typing in a bunch of numbers that I may get wrong in the process.

Thanks in advance, folks!

(And please excuse me, as this may not exactly fall under the "preservation" category. However, I felt that those who frequent this particular forum would best know the answer to my question.)
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I think you might be best off downloading Cody k's fixed version of "this one movie". He's done it right. Check a.b.dvdr or a.b.starwars.

What you're looking at is almost certainly what "this one movie" would look like at the projector, either on film or video, before being properly expanded by a set of anamorphic lenses. Anamorphic lenses are 2:1 (or thereabouts). There is another fix available for "this one movie" that just fiddles with the IFO and early VOB files -- but by definition this won't fix the aspect ratio correctly. The best such a fix can do is get it to 16:9, which isn't right. So I'd avoid the quick fix.

If you want to do it yourself, get DGIndex, AviSynth, VirtualDubMod, and TMPGEnc. DGIndex "this one movie" to generate the appropriate D2V file, write a quick script in AviSynth (you'll need to include LanczosResize, of course, as well as AddBorders), load it all up in VDubMod to see how it looks, then feed it to TMPGEnc for encoding. Should take less than 4 or 5 hours, maybe?

If you're really hardcore (even more hardcore than Cody k), you'd also decimate "this one movie," because every fourth frame is repeated. Check the timecode: the one on the left is frames of video (i.e. the rightmost number runs from 0 to 29) and the TC on the right is frames of film (i.e. runs from 0 to 23). The one on the right "freezes" when frames are duplicated. Get rid of those, and it'll be smaller and nicer than the original...

I'm going to go see "this one movie" in the theatre this weekend, but that's not stopping me from downloading "this one movie" while it's available.
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Mission understood, dread lord...
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How does one write scripts on AVIsynth? Or could you point me in the direction of an appropriate tutorial?

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Rebel Rouser, check your PMs.

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MeBeJedi, check your email. *heh*heh*
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Oh, and Karyudo... check YOUR PMs as well!
For as much as some people claim to hate what Star Wars has become, they sure seem incapable of shutting up about it.
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I'm stuck with 16:9 as I can't seem to re-encode any video files at all at the moment. It's a software conflict, bah!

I'm sure that "this one movie" would be better enjoyed if one could manage a re-encode... I might try for myself once my PC stops playing up (help by PM, anyone?)

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From my experience, double-stacking 16:9 coversions ends up with 2.35:1

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Are you guys talking about Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights?
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Not that movie. It's a more recent release, one that we dare not mention the name of (if we do we will be hunted down and destroyed).

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Yes.

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I think I know the name of that movie. I've seen it in cinema. It's about a someone who tries to save his wife's life.

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"I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'"
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"That was the film "Speed" in French. Which in France was called “La Vitesse!” Or at least it should have been but in fact it was called "*Speed*"

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Good God I love Eddie Izzard... at least, I'm pretty sure that was Eddie Izzard. (I don't sleep much these days.)
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