I have some footage (from Memories) that I resized to 880x480 square pixels before editing. Now I'm trying to export it back to 720x480 16:9. It seems that I can do this with Adobe Premiere no problem (there is the slightest dark line on the top and bottom but nothing I am concerned with)? If I try to export with mpeg2 or h.264 the settings are 720x480 with Pixel Aspect Ratio set to Widescreen 16:9 (1.212)? This would be fine except I'm getting confused when I want to make an mp4 with Zarx264 instead. If I export a lossless version and then use the re-size calculator in AvsPmod I can't figure out how to get it back to 720x480. So this is the closest thing I can come up with:
LanczosResize(724, 478)
Crop(2, 0, -2, -0)
AddBorders(0,0,0,2)
It's squished but I figured it would stretch back out in Zarx264. Ok, so when I export with the aspect ratio in auto calculate at 16:9 I can't get it to play back (just a black screen)? If the aspect ratio is set to 1:1 it exports fine but ends up obviously looking squished and if I override the aspect ratio in Media Player Classic to 16:9 it looks fine. Obviously, I would rather not have to overide.??
First, should I skip the "crop" and "addborders" functions and just re-size to 720x480 and figure it out from there? And second, am I misunderstanding how this stuff works or am I having a problem with Zarx264?


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