Letterbox in TMPGEnc Plus ?

[Gweedo]

Can you do letterbox in TMPGEnc Plus? If not what's a good program that will do letterbox and avi to mpg.

[gs0666]

If I understood your question correct,you can do this.
Click on the Settings button and change Aspect Ratio under the Video tab to 16:9

[Gweedo]

But then it just scrunches it all up.

[gs0666]

"But then it just scrunches it all up."

I don't understand what you mean here.

Also set Video arrange method to Fullscreen (keep aspect ratio 2)
under the Advanced tab

[Gweedo]

That doesn't work.

What I mean is that it takes something this big | | and puts it into a place this big | |.

[gs0666]

Have you set Source Aspect Ratio to 16:9 Display.I did a .avi-->VCD conversion a couple of days ago and it worked great on my widescreen TV.

[Gweedo]

Well that didn't exactly work but I did manage to get it all right by setting it to center (custom size) and playing around with the size. Thanks for your help though.

[gs0666]

Good for you

[setarip]

Just in case...

If your original .AVI DOES NOT have "black bars" above and below,try the following in TMPGEnc:

Click the "Video" tab and change applicable settings to: 352X240 (PAL 352x288), 4:3 (NTSC or PAL as appropriate) 525 Line. Click the "Advanced" tab and change applicable settings to: "16:9 Display", "Center (Keep aspect ratio)", and 352x240 (PAL 352x288).

Let us know of your success ;>}

[Gweedo]

Well, if it wasn't supposed to end up with the black bars I'd say that works nicely, but I'm going for the black bars so I'll just keep going with my conversion on what I already have set. Thanks anyways.

[setarip]

You've misinterpreted my post - What I have described WILL give you the desired "black bars"...

[Gweedo]

No, that was actually the first thing I thought, that it would give me the black bars. When I tried it though it didn't.

[setarip]

I won't press the issue (Although I KNOW that what I've proposed does indeed create the "black bars") - rather, I'll just congratulate you upon resolving your dilemma ;>}

[CoolHL]

a thing i've noticed is that the program makes the avi's very choppy. is there a resolution to this as well?
-Derrick