Red Right Hand
4th June 2004, 17:30
I couldn't decide which sub-forum to post this question in, but, since part of my question does deal with DVD Rebuilder, I finally decided on this one.
Until recently, the extent of my "DVD (re-)authoring" experience has been with 1:1 backup (transcoder) applications like DVDShrink, Nero Recode, CloneDVD, etc. Yesterday, I downloaded DVD Rebuilder, along with AviSynth and the QuEnc and ReJig encoders. I realize that using a utility like Rebuilder greatly simplifies working with AVS scripts, etc., but it's still a big step for me, and fairly confusing.
I am not really interested in learning all of the ins and outs of DVD authoring, as far as being able to edit .VOB and .IFO files to change menu structures or streams, etc. The idea of just learning how to write and execute my own AVS scripts is daunting for me, and I just don't really have the time or energy to tackle this kind of project, although I'm amazed at what other people (posters at this forum, and the authors of all these DVD-editing utilities) have been able to do.
I have what seems to my uneducated mind to be a fairly simple task that I want to accomplish. I have some older DVD movies which are encoded as letterboxed 4:3. In other words, the actual MPEG includes the black bars at the top and bottom of the 4:3 image as part of the video file. I have a 16:9 widescreen television, and I would like to convert these movies to true 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format.
I have been successful in this conversion using a couple of different methods. One was to use DVD Rebuilder (with either QuEnc or ReJig) to transcode the DVD files. It does work fine this way -- all I do is turn on the "Convert from LB4:3 to 16:9" option. It was such a smart idea to include this one-click conversion option in Rebuilder -- I am grateful to have found this utility for this reason. The only frustration I have with the process is that it takes a very long time -- a matter of several hours -- to complete the transcoding/rebuilding process.
I've also been successful using FlasKMPEG to do the cropping/conversion, but it also involves transcoding and takes just as long if not longer than Rebuilder to do the job.
So, finally, here's my question. All of the discs that I'm trying to do this 4:3 letterboxed to 16:9 anamorphic conversion with are DVD-5's, not DVD-9's, so I don't really need the data compressed/transcoded. Is there a way I can just crop/resize the existing data without having to re-encode it all? Is there any faster way to do this conversion than having to use a transcoder this way? I just don't know enough about MPEG encoding to know the answer to this question.
Thanks!
Until recently, the extent of my "DVD (re-)authoring" experience has been with 1:1 backup (transcoder) applications like DVDShrink, Nero Recode, CloneDVD, etc. Yesterday, I downloaded DVD Rebuilder, along with AviSynth and the QuEnc and ReJig encoders. I realize that using a utility like Rebuilder greatly simplifies working with AVS scripts, etc., but it's still a big step for me, and fairly confusing.
I am not really interested in learning all of the ins and outs of DVD authoring, as far as being able to edit .VOB and .IFO files to change menu structures or streams, etc. The idea of just learning how to write and execute my own AVS scripts is daunting for me, and I just don't really have the time or energy to tackle this kind of project, although I'm amazed at what other people (posters at this forum, and the authors of all these DVD-editing utilities) have been able to do.
I have what seems to my uneducated mind to be a fairly simple task that I want to accomplish. I have some older DVD movies which are encoded as letterboxed 4:3. In other words, the actual MPEG includes the black bars at the top and bottom of the 4:3 image as part of the video file. I have a 16:9 widescreen television, and I would like to convert these movies to true 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format.
I have been successful in this conversion using a couple of different methods. One was to use DVD Rebuilder (with either QuEnc or ReJig) to transcode the DVD files. It does work fine this way -- all I do is turn on the "Convert from LB4:3 to 16:9" option. It was such a smart idea to include this one-click conversion option in Rebuilder -- I am grateful to have found this utility for this reason. The only frustration I have with the process is that it takes a very long time -- a matter of several hours -- to complete the transcoding/rebuilding process.
I've also been successful using FlasKMPEG to do the cropping/conversion, but it also involves transcoding and takes just as long if not longer than Rebuilder to do the job.
So, finally, here's my question. All of the discs that I'm trying to do this 4:3 letterboxed to 16:9 anamorphic conversion with are DVD-5's, not DVD-9's, so I don't really need the data compressed/transcoded. Is there a way I can just crop/resize the existing data without having to re-encode it all? Is there any faster way to do this conversion than having to use a transcoder this way? I just don't know enough about MPEG encoding to know the answer to this question.
Thanks!