Converting fullscreen to wide.

[megaman917]

I'm trying to burn some anime for my anime club. Problem is the anime in question is in fullscreen and need it in widescreen (so we can read the subtitles). Simply loading it into Nero, under the 16:9 setting, doesn't really help; neither does resizing in VDubMod.

I'm trying to avoid cropping.

Any suggestions?

My opologies if Org rules have been violated.

[Scintilla]

I'm going to assume that the reason you can't read the subtitles in the original fullscreen version is because they're in the overscan zone (too close to the bottom edge of the picture) and therefore not showing up on your TV/projector/whatever. (If this is not the case, then what is the reason you can't read the subtitles?)

In that case, what you'd probably want to do is add black bars around all four sides of the video, then resize to the appropriate resolution. It shouldn't require going to widescreen.

[BlaCk_PeArL_27]

I had NERO before but I remove it in my laptop since it never satisfied in that program. My suggestion is cropping...... it's all you can do unless there's other know how to fix your problem. To make it wide not a fullscreen

[megaman917]

I'm going to assume that the reason you can't read the subtitles in the original fullscreen version is because they're in the overscan zone (too close to the bottom edge of the picture) and therefore not showing up on your TV/projector/whatever. (If this is not the case, then what is the reason you can't read the subtitles?)

In that case, what you'd probably want to do is add black bars around all four sides of the video, then resize to the appropriate resolution. It shouldn't require going to widescreen.

That's pretty much it. So how do I add the black bars?

[Willen]

This is also quite useful for converting AMVs to DVDs for watching on a TV from a standard DVD player, especially ones that feature subtitles, like Morning Honkation.

Here's my quick and dirty way of doing this in TMPGEnc: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 9&start=15

This may also be useful:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=62841

As for using Nero to do this, I'm not sure it can add borders to a video. You could do this through VirtualDubMod or even better, use AviSynth.

The more elegant solution is to do this through AviSynth:

DirectShowSource("C:\PATH\VIDEO.AVI")
BilinearResize(640,432)
AddBorders(40,24,40,24)

Then use the AVS script directly, or make a fake AVI and load that into Nero.

To do this through VDM, load your video file, select Full processing mode from the Video menu. Then go to Video > Filters... and click the Add... button. Select the resize filter and click OK. On the Filter: resize dialog use these settings:

New width: 640
New height: 432 (436 if you prefer living on the edge)
Filter mode: (this depends on whether you resize up or down)

Check the Expand frame and letterbox image option, and input these parameters:

Frame width: 720
Frame height: 480
Fill color: Black (this should be the default)

Click OK. Now do whatever you need to do (frameserve, convert, etc.).

* Disclaimer: yes, I realize that the resizing and border widths aren't the best for achieving the most efficient MPEG-2 encodes, but it's the most balanced parameters I could come up with.

[Willen]

I forgot to add that the settings I provided apply to both 4:3 and 16:9 anamorphic video encoding. Just make sure you select the appropriate option in your software when encoding to get the aspect ratio flags set correctly.

If you prefer to letterbox 16:9 widescreen videos instead of encoding for anamorphic playback, then resize to 640x320 (or 324) and add borders to make the final video 720x480 (40,80,40,80 or 40,78,40,78). Encode the video as 4:3 aspect ratio.

[megaman917]

Graci