help me with widescreen please

Unfound · Post by **Unfound** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:19 pm

OzzieArcane wrote:I figured rather then make my own thread, I'd ask this here since it's the exact opposite of what he's asking. How do you make Widescreen footage into regular(fullscreen) footage? BTW no I'm not using Avisynth.

The best thing to do is add letter boxes (borders) to the top and bottom of the screen. Actually resizing the video will make it look worse. I only know how to do this through AVISynth, so I'd wait for someone else. (I don't see why people just don't AVISynth, its so easy once you learn)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:44 pm

Ninjafox wrote:crap.... the naruto episodes are like 640x480, so much for a shortcut eh?

What, they're 640x480 and you're using WMM? In that case, you don't even need AVISynth. When you're taking only the clips you need and converting them to HuffYUV in VirtualDubMod (you ARE doing this if you're not using AVS and MakeAVIs, right?), you can just crop as much as you want/need in VDubMod. One way to do this (I don't know if there are others) is to apply the "null transform" filter and then click on "Cropping...", which brings up a window that'll let you crop as much as you want off the top and bottom.

Then, when you take your cropped HuffYUVs into WMM, it'll letterbox them back up to 640x480, and all will be good.

Ninjafox · Post by **Ninjafox** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:07 am

which one do i download?

Ninjafox · Post by **Ninjafox** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:13 am

dont worry about that stupid question. um i got virtualDub can u tell me wat i hav to do now? soz for askin so much

but i appreciate the replys to help me

shirohamada · Post by **shirohamada** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:59 am

i think makeavis is included in ffdshow too, the newer ones.

avisynth is a must learn, if you want optimal quality, in virtualdub, filtering will change the colourspace to RGB, change=not good.
and its much better than the "forbidden" VFAPIConverter. i think causse its slow.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:50 pm

OzzieArcane wrote:I figured rather then make my own thread, I'd ask this here since it's the exact opposite of what he's asking. How do you make Widescreen footage into regular(fullscreen) footage? BTW no I'm not using Avisynth.

I assume you're talking about pan-and-scan. The problem is that you sometimes have to focus on one area of the screen to make it fullscreen, and it's not always the center. If the action takes place on one side or the other, that's the part you need to crop for.

The first step is to crop out the letterboxing (if it's there, such as on the EoE or X/1999 DVDs; you can use the 'Null Transform' filter in VDub and then use the crop function) or to resize the anamorphic footage from 720x480 to the correct ratio (for 16:9 footage, resize to 848x480). If you use VDub's Lanczos or Precise Bicubic Resize methods, it shouldn't end up looking worse.

The only other step is to crop out the parts on either side of the screen so the video width is 720 again. It takes a little addition and subtraction to balance out the sides, but it works well this way.

Ninjafox · Post by **Ninjafox** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:30 am

ok... hold up for a sec

ive got virtualDub and avisynth

now do i start cropping ??