Widescreen to Full Screen Menu?

[Sakuya]

I'm having a bit of trouble making an intro clip before the menu appears and then making the menu have the same image as the last frame of the clip so that it would seem like an animated menu. :p

The thing is, my intro clip is widescreen. The source is 640x360. I converted to TMPGEnc using an AVISynth script doing a lanczos resize to 720x480. In TMPGEnc, I selected its aspect ratio as 16:9 (NTSC).

My TV is a full screen, I guess it would be letterbox? So, how should I create my still menu JPEG so that it would look the same on TV as the widescreen intro clip? Should I make a JPEG sized 720x480 and then just use the intro clip M2V's last frame?

I'm authoring the DVD this way. Author normally with GUI for DVD Author. Then, I author a separate DVD project for my intro clip using Muxman. And in the end, add the intro clip using Pgcedit.

[goonix]

Should I make a JPEG sized 720x480 and then just use the intro clip M2V's last frame?That's the right way.

If you want to make a 16:9 still menu from scratch, use a 854x480 picture and resize it to 720x480.
And you have to select if your menu should be shown as Letterbox or as Pan&Scan on a 4:3 TV during the authoring stage.

goonix

[mpucoder]

Letterboxed menus don't usually look nice, you might want to consider pan/scan instead (it's just a display option, does not change the image in any way).
Using a bitmap instead of jpeg will reduce the difference in the appearance of the image caused by lossy encoding (one less lossy step).
Unless you want the intro and still part to be seperate cells, you can simply freeze the last frame of the intro indefinitely and start the highlight layer at the end of the intro.

[goonix]

simply freeze the last frame of the intro indefinitelyHow this can be done in MuxMan?

It would be nice if you post a short mxp sample.

goonix

[mpucoder]

Version 0.14 and earlier, of course, can not make a menu and title. But for 0.15 and 0.16 save the project, then edit the .mxp file to set the cell still time of the menu to 255 - this freezes the last frame.
Now set the subpicture and highlight start time to the run length of the video. Then reload the project.
In the upcoming 0.17 most of this can be editted with the GUI.

[goonix]

Thanks mpucoder!

Don't thought its so easy...

goonix

[Sakuya]

Thanks. Goonix's method didn't work exactly as I wanted it to because the menu still stretched out a bit compared to the clip. But instead, I just converted the widescreen clip into a 4:3 clip with the black bars added and used that as the menu image.

While on the topic, is there actually a way to change the black bars to some other color?

[goonix]

Take the last frame of the wide screen intro clip as menu picture.
Resize the 720x480 original frame to 854x480.
Add your menu text and resize it back to 720x480.
You can also add the menu text directly to the 720x480 picture.
In both cases it should look exactly the same as the clip and not stretched.
If not, then you have made a mistake.

Avisynth can add colored borders.

goonix