colinb
31st March 2006, 10:03
I have some footage from a digital TV broadcast. It was all broadcast as 16:9 but is mostly 4:3 pillarboxed into the 16:9 frame. During the broadcast, the DAR flags were changing to switch from letterboxed (for the real 16:9 material) and pan-and-scan for the 4:3 material.
I'd like to copy all of this to DVD as pan-and-scan from beginning to end. But for some of the real 16:9 material I could do with shifting the pan and scan frame slightly to one side (so that it is not exactly central).
Is it possible to do this or has pan-and-scan simply become centre-cropping only? And is there any software which can do this?
Edit: I just found this statement in a DVD faq: a portion of the image is shown at full height on a 4:3 screen by following a "center of interest" offset encoded in the video stream according to the preferences of those who transferred the film to video.
I guess I'm asking if there's any software which will allow me to change the "center of interest" offset, possible by modifying the value in the VOB files?
I'd like to copy all of this to DVD as pan-and-scan from beginning to end. But for some of the real 16:9 material I could do with shifting the pan and scan frame slightly to one side (so that it is not exactly central).
Is it possible to do this or has pan-and-scan simply become centre-cropping only? And is there any software which can do this?
Edit: I just found this statement in a DVD faq: a portion of the image is shown at full height on a 4:3 screen by following a "center of interest" offset encoded in the video stream according to the preferences of those who transferred the film to video.
I guess I'm asking if there's any software which will allow me to change the "center of interest" offset, possible by modifying the value in the VOB files?