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c_angel
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_ 		16. April 2008 @ 15:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
HELP !!! I have thousands of 720X480 .mpg files that are anamorphic and I want to lay them onto DVD's that are 16 X 9 letterbox so that the images do not look squeezed. I have Nero 7, but there is not an option to do this. What software can achieve what I want?
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davexnet
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_ 		16. April 2008 @ 16:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You want to convert an anamorphic dvd to non anamorphic ?
Why ? Isn't it better to set the dvd player to 4/3 and have it
squeeze the picture vertically ?
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c_angel
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_ 		16. April 2008 @ 17:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
We send out these DVD's to clients for their viewing, and I cannot guarantee what type of DVD player they are using OR the fact that they will NOT want to change their settings. When we downconvert from Digibeta to DVD (letterboxed) it looks terrific but that is done at a telecine house. These are files that we have encoded from the digibeta "in house"
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davexnet
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_ 		16. April 2008 @ 20:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It can be done. You need an application that allows you to
specify the source and output aspect ratio.

Tmpgenc 2.5 allows you to do it. I would have thought more recent
encoders would have something similar. Essentially all you're doing
is reducing the height by approx 1/4.

For example, if the anamorphic picture takes up the whole
480 (no black bar top and bottom), then the output would be
a letterboxed 720/480 with the picture having a height of approx
360, with black bars top and bottom of 60 pixels each.

This will provide a picture of the correct ratio on a 4/3 TV.
How it looks on a widescreen TV is down to the TV.

Does this help?
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c_angel
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_ 		17. April 2008 @ 12:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks Dave, I will check into that encoding. For us, when I client wants 110 clips layed down onto DVD I was hoping to NOT have to use more than NERO to go from our intranet web server to lay down onto DVD. They have already viewed the clips in a Quicktime hi res, but want a dvd for the producers to look over.
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