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Letterbox Utility?
ErikRuud:
Here is the situation:
I have a video that is 640 x 368. If I try to burn this to a DVD it gets stretched vertically to a 4:3 aspect ratio which makes things look tall and skinny. I own a copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator 7, but is has no options for dforcing the aspect ratio. It wil strech/squash any video clip to 4:3.
Is there a utility that I can use to add letterboxing to thei clip so that it is 640 x 480 before I bring it into EMC7?
maraxle:
Try TMPGEnc. If that doesn't work, check out www.videohelp.com.
ErikRuud:
Hey, thanks Maraxle.
I did find this: Video Perspective that is supposed to be able to do it. It did, but it took four tries to get what I wanted, and even then the re-encoding introduced a lot of noise to the images.
I 'll follow up on your suggestions.
daywane:
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CheffoJeffo:
I deal with stuff like this pretty regularly ... typically would have problems with DivX/XViD encoded files in 16:9. I use the Resize filter in VirtualDub to add letterbox borders to bring it to 4:3 and then burn to DVD.
Works like a charm (although some versions of VirtualDub have trouble with variable bit rate audio tracks).
Cheers.