Need Help with Clever Anamorphic Encoding in MeGUI

[fight2win]

hi,
i am trying to encode a r1 ntsc 16:9 dvd to x264 high profile mp4 file.While trying to create an avisynth script using megui! i want to an anmorphic encode/resize as i have been told it's good, please can u guys advice me on this? what options should i use, after ticking clever anamorphic encoding, should i use overcrop, or resize to mod 16 , or what? also, in the previe of avs, there is option of displaying dar, should i tick it, please someone help me, i went through some posts but could not understand much.:scared:

[desta]

Not saying this is the definitive way of doing it, but first I usually use 'autocrop' - if it doesn't crop enough, or crops too much, then I adjust it. Then I tick the 'Clever Anamorphic' box. 9 times out of 10 it always sets the correct DAR.

16/9 for ... 16:9
37/20 for 1.85:1
47/20 for 2.35

.. etc

It seems by default that when you select Clever Anamorphic, it automatically sets the width to 720... in a lot of cases, the cropping means this will be upsizing the video. Whatever the width after the cropping, I always lower the resolution to the same or slightly smaller, keeping to mod16. Upsizing would be pointless, imo.

[fight2win]

so, while muxing the mp4 in mkv, should i specify the aspect ratio in mkvtoolnix, or leave it to default?

[berrinam]

so, while muxing the mp4 in mkv, should i specify the aspect ratio in mkvtoolnix, or leave it to default?
You should set the aspect ratio in mkvtoolnix, but if you get MeGUI to do your mkv muxing for you, it should do that automatically.

[fight2win]

thanks!

[fight2win]

in both cases of resizing after cropping to 720X352 or 704X352, me getting a dar of 22:9 in avs preview window of megui (besides the tick of show dar), so which one should i use, 720 or 704 width resize?

[berrinam]

Don't resize, or else use the highest possible.

[fight2win]

thank u berrinam:D

[bira]

It seems that I am doing everything right.

My avs script is this

# Set DAR in encoder to 47 : 20. The following line is for automatic signalling
global MeGUI_darx = 47
global MeGUI_dary = 20
DGDecode_mpeg2source("I:\To Be Encoded\WC\VTS_02_PGC_01_1.d2v",info=3)
ColorMatrix(hints=true)
edeintted = AssumeTFF().SeparateFields().SelectEven().EEDI2(field=-1)
tdeintted = TDeint(edeint=edeintted,order=1)
tfm(clip2=tdeintted).tdecimate(hybrid=1)
crop( 8, 62, -8, -66)
#resize
#denoise


I set megui to "clever anamorphic encoding and overcrop to achieve mod16". Enconder is x264 and container is MKV.

Video is correctly signaled as 2.35:1, but I just can't play it correctly in zoomplayer. I have to manually set AR to 2.35:1 or else I don't get the correct AR.

What is wrong?

[bira]

Nevermind, I just learned that I have to set the output of ffdshow to use 'overlay mixer'.