Is their a way to make wide screen to full screen

[KESHACAT]

I'm still a little new to this , would like to know when you make a copy of a DVD , can you make a wide screen to a full screen version. Sure would like to know if anyone knows if this is possible. Thanks

[DarkZell666]

16/9 movies have either been shot directly in 16/9, or shot at 4/3 and cropped to 16/9, but in either case, to put it simple: you can't invent what has been cut out or what has never been there.

And if you dare (:devil:) try resizing your movie to 4/3, you'll get an ugly & stretched picture ;)

[foxyshadis]

Yes, but you lose some quality. And unless you're willing to spend hours in an NLE doing it, you may lose parts of certain key scenes, if the director shot scenes with action to the sides. For a while, this was relatively uncommon with the prevalence of VHS, but it's coming back into vogue now that widescreen is in.

But in general, all you need to do is resize horizontally to 1:1 aspect ratio, cropp all black borders, do the crop to 4:3, and then resize back to 720x480 (or 720x576 PAL); finally, encode back to DVD and set the ratio to 4:3. If the movie is "interlaced", you'll probably need to apply IVTC before resizing, which most editors have some form of. Without knowing what editor you'll use it's impossible to precisely prescribe a method.

You might want to consider Avisynth, using this script, where the d2v is generated from the m2v/vobs with DGIndex:

Mpeg2Source("movie.d2v",cpu=4)
TFM().TDecimate() # only if not "force filmed" in DGIndex
Spline36Resize(852,480) # 16:9 NTSC, different for 1.85 and 2.15
Crop(106,0,-106,0)
Spline36Resize(720,480)

Load into quenc or HC, encode, load the output into DGPulldown, then author it back onto DVD.

If you're going to a local file, not a DVD, skip everything after the crop.

[DarkZell666]

I wouldn't be too keen on throwing away a 3rd of the picture though ...

[KESHACAT]

[B]Thanks to you all for your help. Looks like I better stick with the way it is. I like full screen better and I don't have one of those fancy screens yet.

[KESHACAT]

Thanks to you all for your help. Looks like I better stick with the way it is. I like full screen better and I don't have one of those fancy screens yet.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Try changing your standalone DVD player's "Setting" or "Display" to 4:3...