16:9 letterbox to 16:9 anamorphic

[Tonio Roffo]

Hello,

I have 16:9 letterbox PAL MPEG2 720*576 material which I like to convert to 16:9 Anamorphic, to keep my project consistent in anamorphic. I do realize I won't gain quality.

I've tried working with the crop settings in tmpgenc but I think I do something wrong.

Anyone experienced enough with tmpgenc to make this work?

Thanks

[FulciLives]

For PAL you would crop or cut 72 lines of resolution off the top and bottom. If you have VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD set to FULL SCREEN then the image will be stretched to fit the top and the bottom thus giving you a 16x9 image.

Now I mostly work with NTSC (or PAL to NTSC conversions) so I'm not 100% positive that 72 is the correct figure for PAL but I'm 99% sure of it.

I know for certain that for NTSC the correct number is 60 lines off the top and bottom.

You can also do this in an AviSynth AVS scrip by cropping the top and bottom and then resizing to 720x576 (or 720x480 for NTSC) again giving you that stretched 16x9 image you want.

If you use the WIZARD MODE in TMPGEnc and don't want to use an AviSynth AVS script then select the PAL 16x9 DVD TEMPLATE but select 4:3 for the input (since that is what it is) but then do the CLIP command and set VIDEO ARRANGE METHOD to FULL SCREEN ... note you do not want to use FULL SCREEN (KEEP ASPECT RATIO) when doing this.

As a final word just make sure you set your DVD output as 16x9 in your authoring software.

I should note that doing this really gives you no benefit in my eyes unless you have a true 16x9 TV display.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Tonio Roffo]

Thanks that was really a very helpful answer!

I know that quality-wise this is a joke, but I want to keep a DVD fully in anamorphic, because I use a Projector to watch my video's and it doesn't support auto mode switching on s-video inputs

Yves