Resizing Extras Res

[Master Yoda]

I was reading something over in another site that someone else resize's the extras to half res.I was wondering how you do this, what line whould you need to add into the avs for the track.

Whould resizeing the res give a better picture quality when useing a low bitrate for the extras, i.e. 1500k.

[Matthew]

Never done this so don't know the resize command off hand, however as to whether you should do it, at 1500 kbps it sounds likely to be a good idea.

Basically the choice is between loss of detail (blurriness)[low res] and blockiness [high res]. Most people find blockiness to be more unpalatable.

[downloada]

hi,

i think this should be possible by adding an additional line (or changing one) in the ecl-files, cce has a built-in funtion to halve either the vertical or horizontal resolution. but the problem is, that we can't change the ecl before it's processed by cce because it's created by docce4u and directly passed on to cce (or am i wrong?). so there would have to be an option in dc4u to make this method work.

but another question: is it standard-compliant to have different resolutions on the same dvd? if it is, i would really love to see this feature in dc4u (or it's successor).

cu

[Master Yoda]

What you would have to do is before you hit encode in reauthorist open the avs files and add the line in to change the res.
Or to change the ECL file do this, set up your bitrates etc in reauthorist, then hit author instead of encode, this will give you a scenarist script and a ecl cce file.Change the ecl file, then open cce and load the ecl file, encode, then open scenarist and load the script that was created in reauthorist.

[hendrix]

use avisynth to resize to half D1 res.

[Master Yoda]

@Hendrix...... What line would i have to add in ?

[hendrix]

NTSC
for progressive sources
LanczosResize(352,480,8,0,704,480)

if your source is interlaced then
SeparateFields()LanczosResize(352,240,8,0,704,240).Weave()


for PAL progressive
LanczosResize(352,576,0,0,720,576)

interlaced
SeparateFields()LanczosResize(352,288,0,0,720,288).Weave()

if you want to convert lower field first to top field first then
DoubleWeave().SelectOdd().SeparateFields()
LanczosResize(352,288,0,0,720,288).Weave()

im an NTSC user so i havent tested the scripts on a PAL source but it should work - always worked for me :D