Hi, I am trying to crop my copy of "The Rocketeer" so that it will play correctly on a wide screen TV or portable DVD player. The movie is recored onto the DVD with Letter Box and I would like re-encode it into a widescreen format an burn it back to a dvd with full menus and extras.
I was going to write a long guide about this, but it looks like TMPGEnc Xpress has a mode to import DVD Video from a disc. You would then go to the "Filters" tab and use a crop filter to crop out the black bars.
They probably offer a demo of TMPGEnc so check that out.
Originally posted by sgibbers: Hi, I am trying to crop my copy of "The Rocketeer" so that it will play correctly on a wide screen TV or portable DVD player. The movie is recored onto the DVD with Letter Box and I would like re-encode it into a widescreen format an burn it back to a dvd with full menus and extras.
It is possible to do that using TMPGEnc 2.5. In IFOEdit, you can export the GOP list. Then you can import it to TMPGEnc and crop and re-encode the video. After that, you would use IFOEdit's remux feature.
I have never did it personally, but I have created the GOP list and imported it into TMPGEnc, so it seems like it could work. Even if it doesn't, there is still a manual way of doing it with PGCEdit.
I usually don't do this type of editing cause I have no use for extra features or I just take a small selection. Also, any major editing I do involves me making a completely new DVD. It's faster for me cause I edit all the DVD commands either way.
