Rockas
15th January 2005, 17:51
A few years ago I made the first 16:9 home video in the world lol
Don't ask me how - I will never tell that I used black tape to cover my VHS-C objective to have the "perfect aspect ratio" :p.
After my "fantastic" production (15 years ago I had too much free time on my hands) I played the tape and I got proud of it (:o - can you believe it?).
After all this time I've decided to make a DVD with that tape... and so I made it that's when my problems began :)
The supposed 16:9 aspect works fine (at least as fine as it can get) on a 4:3 TV but on my 16:9 the image just gets too stretched as you can imagine. Then I decided to use DVD Rebuilder's "Convert from LB 4:3 to 16:9" but the original DVD size (3.24GB) came down to (1.95GB)... now my question is... Is this normal? anyone tried anything like this before?
I have this doubts 'cause this was the first time that I used DVD Rebuilder on a source that has the size inferior to the one needed to fit DVD-5.
I simply don't know how DVD-RB works with "fitable" sources, does it takes advantage of all DVD-5 size and my file's size reduction only has to do with the subtraction of top and bottom black (on my case grey - I should have putted some more tape) margins?
Hope you understand what I'm trying to explain and be explained... but as usual my English sucks :)
Don't ask me how - I will never tell that I used black tape to cover my VHS-C objective to have the "perfect aspect ratio" :p.
After my "fantastic" production (15 years ago I had too much free time on my hands) I played the tape and I got proud of it (:o - can you believe it?).
After all this time I've decided to make a DVD with that tape... and so I made it that's when my problems began :)
The supposed 16:9 aspect works fine (at least as fine as it can get) on a 4:3 TV but on my 16:9 the image just gets too stretched as you can imagine. Then I decided to use DVD Rebuilder's "Convert from LB 4:3 to 16:9" but the original DVD size (3.24GB) came down to (1.95GB)... now my question is... Is this normal? anyone tried anything like this before?
I have this doubts 'cause this was the first time that I used DVD Rebuilder on a source that has the size inferior to the one needed to fit DVD-5.
I simply don't know how DVD-RB works with "fitable" sources, does it takes advantage of all DVD-5 size and my file's size reduction only has to do with the subtraction of top and bottom black (on my case grey - I should have putted some more tape) margins?
Hope you understand what I'm trying to explain and be explained... but as usual my English sucks :)