letterboxed? not-letterboexed? how does one tell

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:00 pm

I finished remastering a older video of mine recently. It was a video to The first kenshin OVA's. I always though that it was like everything else and not letterboxed but then i saw a video where it was letterboxed. I am confused as to what this actually is. Is there a way to tell just by looking at the video if it should be letterboxed or not or if the source is anamorphic? I've editing it in 720 x480 using the DVD footage and i've looked at it in this resolution that it doesn't look right if i aquish it to be the letterboxed ratio.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:09 pm

The letterboxed Kenshin OVAs are probably from the Director's Cut version of the OVAs, which were a cropped, slightly differently edited, continuous version of the 4-OVA set. If you have the "Trust" and "Betrayal" DVDs, you should have a full-screen version with four episodes.

The Macross Plus OVAs/Movie got a similar treatment, IIRC.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:10 pm

The usual case for letterboxing occurs when one wants to present a widescreen image on a more square (ugh I can't believe I said that) display.

Letterboxed DVDs differ from anamorphic DVDs in that they have the corrections already done, with the video in 4:3. Anamorphic DVDs contain metadata that instruct the player how to handle the stream for display.

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:23 pm

JHU Battousai wrote:The letterboxed Kenshin OVAs are probably from the Director's Cut version of the OVAs, which were a cropped, slightly differently edited, continuous version of the 4-OVA set. If you have the "Trust" and "Betrayal" DVDs, you should have a full-screen version with four episodes.

The Macross Plus OVAs/Movie got a similar treatment, IIRC.

Ok, the trust and betrayal is what i have....ok. Maybe that is what confused me.