Quite simply, can anyone tell me how to convert/crop an mpeg video file (namely, the upcoming DVDs) into anamorphic standard size? (While retaining as much quality as possible) Thanks a lot, as this helps with my editing.
Do you have progressive scan? If not then you'll need to rip the discs and re-encode them. Some were not blessed with brains. <blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
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None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm. I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum. we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
I am novice and I want to make my own letterboxed to anamorphic transfer of the OOT with the DVDRebuilder pro. This program has a funktion to convert 4:3 letterboxed films into 16:9 aspect ratio.
I tried it with the spaceballs DVD some weeks ago and it worked fine. The Spaceballs DVD is a letterboxed transfer from a laserdisc-master too.
The picture of the "source" of this Spaceballs DVD is very soften and so was the result: The picture was very soften. Who knows yet, how the picture of the OOT-DVD's will be in fact, and:
now here is my question:
Is it possible to sharpen the picture of the OOT-DVD a little bit with the DVDRebuilder? I don't know, if there is anybody, who uses this program and could give tips. As I can see they can use filters with the DVDRebuilder, but I don't know how to get the best picture-result.
Maybe there would be one who could post a "how to" guide, if he uses other tools.
Do you have progressive scan? If not then you'll need to rip the discs and re-encode them.
What's he meant to do if he does have progressive scan?
I'd recommend using AVISynth with the mpeg2dec plugin (this allows you to use a .mpeg/.mpg/.m2v file as source for an AVISynth project). Then you can resize and crop in the same script. If you're lucky, your MPEG encoder will accept the AVISynth as input (TMPGenc Express does, for example), so you only reencode once.
I don't know about sharpening with DVDrebuilder, but you can sharpen with an AVISynth script. It's a very handy tool.
Originally posted by: Darth Editous What's he meant to do if he does have progressive scan?
Ues it. If he bought a good progressive scan player it will resize non-anamorphic to anamorphic.
Some were not blessed with brains. <blockquote>Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money, make Lucas lose a lot of his money and make him look bad to the entire world and you could be well known and liked
None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm. I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum. we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
Ues it. If he bought a good progressive scan player it will resize non-anamorphic to anamorphic.
Are there really players that do that? What's the player meant to do if the disc has a got a full frame picture - cut off the top and bottom? (ETA: duh, it would probably be switchable Still, seems a bit pointless when TVs scale anyway)
Anyway, Hal's talking about editing, not viewing, so I assume he wants to cut already anamorphic video with currently non-anamorphic stuff.
You are passing up on a great opportunity to makes lots of money, make Lucas lose a lot of his money and make him look bad to the entire world and you could be well known and liked
None of us here like Lucas or Lucasfilm. I have death wishes on Lucas and Macullum. we could all probably get 10s of thousands of dollars!
Still, seems a bit pointless when TVs scale anyway)