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16:9 DVD to 4:3 DV AVI with black bars
Hey Guys!
I would like to convert a 16:9 footage from dvd to 4:3 DV avi to be able to edit it in premiere pro. I need the upper & lower black bars because of subtitling.
I tried to do it with eRightsoft’s SUPER, but it only allows to convert it to 5:4 and the result is full screen without the black bars (long faces of people and all, you know).
Can anyone help me with this? I’d appreciate it.
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3 Replies
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As long as you are not asking for a program that will break copyright security, which cannot legally be posted here, our favorite is Tmpgenc Xpress, which will lift the footage off the DVD.
You should then be able to drop the footage inside a 4:3 sequence and the bars will be there.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Thanks for the answer!
Hehe, no i’m not asking for a program that will break copyright security. My case is: there’s a short film we made, and the original ratio of it is 16:9, i only have it on dvd, but i need a 4:3 version of it with black bars on the top and the bottom to be able to add subtitles in Premiere.I kinda figured out something for this: if i open my 5:4 DV avi footage (that i have made with Super converter from the 16:9 dvd) in Premiere in a 4:3 project, and go to ‘interprete footage’, change the 5:4 ratio to DV PAL widescreen, and lower the scale of the footage down to about 75%, it looks like a letterboxed 4:3 with black bars that i wanted. Is it ok, or is this just stupid and i need another solution? I mean, at first glance it’s totally fine, but is there something about this procedure i should know? Like quality issues or something?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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The way you described it, it sounds like you may be losing quality unnecessarily.
It depends on how bad you want to keep quality throughout, but after your second compression back to DVD, you may find that that the result is pretty bad. I would do another export to Mpeg2 to simualate your final export and see if you can live with the result before you start subtitling.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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