Selective 4:3 -> 16:9 possible?

[J-Wo]

I've encountered a couple movies where I'm interested in converting 1 title from 4:3 to 16:9, but other titles should remain at 4:3. This is no problem when the 4:3 and 16:9 material exists on separate VTS's, but when they're mixed it becomes a problem. For example, I have the movie Eating Out which consists of only one VTS. The movie is encoded in letterboxed 4:3, and RB's 4:3 -> 16:9 conversion works great. But on the same VTS is a photo gallery, which is all full frame 4:3. When I run the conversion on it, all the photos become cropped and improperly resized to anamorphic.

I was thinking that I could open up the Rebuilder.inf in RB-Opt and either add or remove the LanczosResize line as needed. Would this work, or would I be missing the proper 4:3 or 16:9 flags?

Is this something that could be incorporated in a futrue release of RB, or is it simply not possible to have mixed 4:3 and 16:9 content in the same VTS?

Thanks for your help guys. :)

[Susana]

Standard states only one aspect ratio in VTS, although it can be different in menu and titles domain. You have to reauthor that dvd moving photo gallery to other VTS or menu domain in same VTS and recreate links.

[Video Dude]

But on the same VTS is a photo gallery, which is all full frame 4:3. When I run the conversion on it, all the photos become cropped and improperly resized to anamorphic.

One thing you can do:

Find the avs files that reference the gallery.
Manually edit the files and replace the resize/crop line with an AddBorders line that will pad the left and right sides making it anamorphic 16:9 with black bars on the sides. Resize.
Then encode and rebuild.

But don't do this on menus or if the gallery has BOV.

[Susana]

photo galleries usually have buttons ...

[Video Dude]

True. Some have next and previous navigation buttons.

But others advance automatically. Or you use your remote control to move to the next picture.

[J-Wo]

VideoDude: sounds like an excellent solution! Only thing I'm confused about is what to put for my new Addborders/Resize lines... do you think you could tell me what they should be if my 4:3 content is NTSC? Thanks.

edit: nevermind, I figured out I could use a program like MovieStacker to load the d2v in, then select Anamorphic as the output and it would spit out the correct resize/addborder lines. For those that don't know MovieStacker, it is similar to FitCD but has a nice preview window. However it doesn't accept the d2v files created by RB so I had to make my own using DVD2AVI 1.77.2. Don't ask me where I got this program, because as far as I know it's not available from the author anymore.

[J-Wo]

Okay so I think I may have run into a problem... I manually edited all the AVS files for the 4:3 photo gallery by resizing and addbordering so they would appear windowpaned in 16:9. Here's the script I used:

LanczosResize(544, 480, 8, 0, 704, 480)
AddBorders(88, 0, 88, 0)

When I load each script into virtualdub, the photos look great. After I run it through RB, the resulting photo gallery loses the side windowpanes and instead is stretched to 16:9. I think I can live with this, I mean it's a lot better than before I added the resize line myself because it would improprly crop the photos thinking they were letterboxed. I'm just wondering why does my end result lose the windowpanes I added in?

[Video Dude]

So the photos are no longer croped at the top and bottom, but the picture extends the full width with no black side bars?



Try putting AddBorders before the resize.

AddBorders(88,0,88,0).LanczosResize(720,480)