Widescreen Menus

[kitchy]

I'm a bit confused here, as to how I should do this.
I have a title, with widescreen menus. I have splittet the menu vob, and I have the different menu pages and transitions and sound and sub pictures (buttons). I have the subs for both widescreen and fullscreen.
Here's one thing that puzzles me: How do I reencode the menu vobs? I have watched the menu vobs in dvd2avi, and there they are reported as interlaced 4:3. That's what confuses me. Which DAR setting in CCE should I use to reencode the menus?
And how should I import them in Scenarist?
When I import my assets, and want to set the different W & L settings for the subs of the menu, I can't do this because it's 4:3.
Any help for me, I've tried to search the forum, but haven't be able to find the complete answer for how to do this. The original doesn't seem to letterbox the menu in 4:3, it just squeezes it.

Kitchy

[dan]

Re-encode the movies at 4:3 with the panscan flag on [newer CCE versions have this option....restream can also be used after the fact...]. For menus that are m2v files, Scenarist recognizes this flag, and then you can select the "W" and "P" buttons [while, before, without the panscan flag on, you couldn't]. About the second part of your post, the menus are resized by the stand-alone player according to the panscan flag...the player takes the 540 middle pixels of the 720 x 480 (if NTSC) video [or still] and streteches it to 720. This takes care of the fact that your input m2v's are going to look "smushed" [because they're made to look fine at a 16:9 ratio]. On your computer player and a widescreen TV [assuming the standalone is set-up for a widescreen TV], because of that same panscan flag, the video is stretched and the entire width of the source is seen [as opposed to it being cropped on 4:3 TVs].

Hope this helps,
Dan

[kitchy]

Helped a bunch, thanx..:)