Converting 4:3 to 16:9

[CMG0311]

I am curious, is it possible to convert a 2.35 non-anamorphic DVD to an anmorphic one? I have a few older DVD's I'd like to do that with (Armageddon being the main one). Thank You!

Clayton

[anonymez]

yes, its possible, but know that you will be cropping part of the image, ie you will be missing some of the action, so i really don't recommend it

i'm pretty sure armageddon comes in widescreen

[drfsupercenter]

I think what he means is, some old DVDs were not anamorphic, meaning that to the computer, the image is 4:3, and there are black bars on it. Anamorphic DVDs have 16:9 videos, not 4:3 with bars. As far as converting it goes, I am not sure.

[CMG0311]

Yes, so all I'd be cropping off is the top and bottom of the black bars.

[clink]

Have a look here http://www.videoforums.co.uk/reviews...2_articleid=75. Is this what you want?

[blutach]

Easiest is to use DVD Rebuilder. Dunno if the free version does this, but the pro certainly does. It's in the Options tab, AVS Expert Options, Convert from LB 4:3 to 16:9

Regards

[CMG0311]

It appears that the free version also has this option, however when i tried it, it didn't work? Are there a few other steps that I am missing?

[CMG0311]

By the way, that was in refference to using DVD Rebuilder. Everything works out just fine, but when it's done it's still not anamorphic.

[blutach]

Then your source was not 4:3 "letterboxed" - ie hard matte.

Regards

[CMG0311]

How do you tell if it's letterboxed? I just know the image is 2.35:1 and non anamorphic.

[blutach]

At 2.35:1 it is for sure LB. If it wasn't encoded as anamorphic to begin with, why do you want to change the original encode?

Regards

[nwg]

The free version of DVD-RB certainly does 4:3 LB to 16:9. I have used it couple of times (X Files R1 and The Thing R2) which are both non anamorphic 2.35:1. The results were quite impressive.

[CMG0311]

Well I'd like it to be enhanced for widescreen because i'd rather not zoom in on the picture. If the program does it, what exactly am I doing wrong? The only setting I changed in the program was in the mode menu, i changed it to no compression because I don't have the program for CCE mode.

[blutach]

Well, what did you encode it with, if you don't have CCE?

Regards

[CMG0311]

Well I have CCE SP 2.7 and I don't think that works with the free version of DVD Rebuilder because anytime I go to encode it, CCE gives me a message saying the folder isn't right or something along those lines.