Anamorphic

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:01 pm

I just indexed my Final Fantasy: Advent Children DVD, and it says that it's 4:3, but 720x480. By my somewhat understanding this means that it's anamorphic. So I've read through all the guides, but I just can't understand it.
Can someone give my a simplified answer to what anamorphic is, and how I can (?)fix(?) it, I guess. Just to make it 16:9 if that is possible.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:59 am

DVDs are limited to being at a resolution of 720x480, so all dvds are this resolution.
Anamorphic simply means that the 16:9 video has had it's horizontal resolution decreased to fit into this 720x480 space. This is actually a good thing, because the movie takes the full resolution of the dvd. The other option would be for them to decreased the horizontal AND vertical resolution, and had black bars encoded on the top and bottom, which would have been a far worse solution.

The simplest thing to do: just crop off any small black borders from any sides you see them, and then resize to 848x480.
If you see LARGE black borders on the top and bottom, then your source may be one of those rare "very widescreen" ones, and in that case you need to leave those when you resize (but you could crop them afterwards if you want).

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:01 am

Wait, I just saw that you said your source is Advent Children, and 4:3?
This does not sound right. Advent children should be 16:9, did you make a typo? (4:3 cant be anamorphic by the way, it would just be letterboxed)

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:26 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Wait, I just saw that you said your source is Advent Children, and 4:3?
This does not sound right. Advent children should be 16:9, did you make a typo? (4:3 cant be anamorphic by the way, it would just be letterboxed)

When I indexed it, it said it was 4:3.
On the back cover of the DVD, it says it's anamorphic widescreen... O_o

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:43 pm

I have AC on my comp and it says 16:9

I don't know what to make of that...

mirkosp · Post by **mirkosp** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:48 pm

Might be DGIndex screwing it.

Or perhaps it's letterboxed...
Also, as a side note, when you have a "very widescreen" source, the correct resolution would be 1024x480.

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:53 pm

mirkosp wrote:Might be DGIndex screwing it. Or perhaps it's letterboxed...
Also, as a side note, when you have a "very widescreen" source, the correct resolution would be 1024x480.

Unless his is a different version which is 4:3 letterboxed and they misslabled the DVD it has to be DGindex messing up. Again using my rip since I have it available, DGIndex says it's 16:9 and 720x480 which means it's anamorphic with no letterboxing. Correct me if I'm wrong with that statement.

Aaron, what edition of AC do you have?

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:39 pm

Krisqo wrote:
mirkosp wrote:Might be DGIndex screwing it. Or perhaps it's letterboxed...
Also, as a side note, when you have a "very widescreen" source, the correct resolution would be 1024x480.
Unless his is a different version which is 4:3 letterboxed and they misslabled the DVD it has to be DGindex messing up. Again using my rip since I have it available, DGIndex says it's 16:9 and 720x480 which means it's anamorphic with no letterboxing. Correct me if I'm wrong with that statement.

Aaron, what edition of AC do you have?

The special two disk edition of it... But it didn't say that anything from the movie on the first disk changed. Unless it was remastered, without telling us, because it only says digitally MASTERED. o.o
I'm so confused. -___-

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:04 pm

Yeah now I'm lost since I have that one too.

Have you tried re-ripping and indexing just for shits and giggles?

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:41 pm

UGHH!!!!
I hate DGIndex... *cries*
I wanted to start converting it yesterday and I was confused... Now I won't be able to edit until weeked probably... D=
But everything is right... DGIndex did a screw up. >_>
Ahh well, thanks for telling me it was DGIndex, and not my DVD(Thank goodness).