I have been using CCE instead of Tmpgenc for a couple of months now (because it's so much faster) but find the user interface a little confusing. I recently encoded a video which ended up as a tiny movie surrounded by black borders. Is there a command in CCE that works in the same way as the 'full screen (keep aspect ratio)' option in Tmpgenc. I don't really want to dive into the world of calculating aspect ratios using avisynth if there's a simpler way to do it.
Think v2.7 was the first to offer any kind of resizing. So to sum up, if you are not wanting to use AVISynth, then you really have the wrong encoder. Sounds like you ticked the DVD compliant option. This as you have found out simply pads the video with black to fill the full 720x576/480 frame. You could use FitCD to do the AVISynth script for you or just use a full on encoding GUI to do the lot.
Thanks celtic_d. So basically, I have 2 choices - either untick dvd compliant (presumably this means I can't then use DVD Author to create .VOB files etc), or use AviSynth?
Basically, however you have several options on how to use AVISynth. 1) Write a script manually. 2) Use FitCD or similar to do it for you. 3) Use a full on GUI like DVD2SVCD, The Film Machine, etc.
Cheers mate. I had a quick experiment last night, with resizing the movie to the correct fullscreen size in VirtualDub, which seemed to work fine as well, and a lot more simple!
Frameserving with VirtualDub more simple? Don't get that myself. VDub means converting to RGB24, so slower encoding times.
OK yes, it is very slow, I will admit that. So, if I wanted to resize an .avi file to NTSC DVD size, the script to load into CCE would look like this: AVISource("C:/myavi.avi") BicubicResize(720,480) ?
