Pan/Crop or Maintain Aspect Ratio

When I download old episodes of bleach and onepiece etc. They are smaller in size ( have the thick black lines either side )

Whats best to do? Pan/Crop or Stretch it and Untick Maintain Aspect ratio
I'm assuming Pan/Crop but I haven't tried it yet so I'm not 100% it will work as well as what I'm thinking.

I upscale to 720p then crop to remove the subs.
If you directly pan/crop you lose 30% of your image and it's as you have zoomed so you lose more quality.
But I think everyone else does pan/crop..

Lethasson wrote:

I upscale to 720p then crop to remove the subs.
If you directly pan/crop you lose 30% of your image and it's as you have zoomed so you lose more quality.
But I think everyone else does pan/crop..

what do you mean by you upscale to 720p?
and when you convert from mkv 2 mp4 won't that remove the subs? or are onepiece episodes coded differently so GUI doesn't pic them up?

The old eps don't exist in .mkv
They exist in avi or mp4 and the subs are hardened.

Lethasson wrote:

The old eps don't exist in .mkv
They exist in avi or mp4 and the subs are hardened.

oh I see, you seem to be on the ball when it comes to one piece eps

Here is a tutorial from tym , since he can't post links, i post it instead

Tym2x: ok i will show you a tutorial with image
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and press ok



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that what you get i hope i helped you image was by tyym21

thanks alot tym for that ^_^ and nikos for posting it
basically thats what I meant when I said about the maintain aspect ratio but what does that disable resample actually do?

If you want to do this, there's an even easier way to accomplish it , if you care to know.
Just press pan/crop and then choose Widescreen 16:9

Lethasson wrote:

If you want to do this, there's an even easier way to accomplish it , if you care to know.
Just press pan/crop and then choose Widescreen 16:9

that's not very good unless there are subs in the clip and you would 've zoom it anyway.But if you don't why would you zoom it and make the quality look bad??Cause most of the episodes that are not fullscreen are episodes that were broadcasted years ago and the quality is already bad....

Oldest eps have subs hardened but yeah if a scene doesn't have subs I'd go with nikos's solution.

Crookz wrote:

thanks alot tym for that ^_^ and nikos for posting it
basically thats what I meant when I said about the maintain aspect ratio but what does that disable resample actually do?

well if you dont turn it off that some time later it will restore the small screen :DD i think so idk cus it was once to me and freand showed it to me and said to do this all the time

ok thanks tym :D

& nikos is that what you did on your latest amv? tyms method cuz you have some old episodes in their, well i think the sanji clip is from when hes at the restaurant

tyym21 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

thanks alot tym for that ^_^ and nikos for posting it
basically thats what I meant when I said about the maintain aspect ratio but what does that disable resample actually do?

well if you dont turn it off that some time later it will restore the small screen :DD i think so idk cus it was once to me and freand showed it to me and said to do this all the time

disable resample is very usefull for masking, so that it won't glitch.Dunno about full screen...

nikos150 wrote:

tyym21 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

thanks alot tym for that ^_^ and nikos for posting it
basically thats what I meant when I said about the maintain aspect ratio but what does that disable resample actually do?

well if you dont turn it off that some time later it will restore the small screen :DD i think so idk cus it was once to me and freand showed it to me and said to do this all the time

disable resample is very usefull for masking, so that it won't glitch.Dunno about full screen...

omg i gave up on masking long ago because of this! everytime it would glitch after a few frames and i would lose my mind and throw my latop away then calm down and decide not to do a mask in my edit :affraid:

Crookz wrote:

nikos150 wrote:

tyym21 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

thanks alot tym for that ^_^ and nikos for posting it
basically thats what I meant when I said about the maintain aspect ratio but what does that disable resample actually do?

well if you dont turn it off that some time later it will restore the small screen :DD i think so idk cus it was once to me and freand showed it to me and said to do this all the time

disable resample is very usefull for masking, so that it won't glitch.Dunno about full screen...

omg i gave up on masking long ago because of this! everytime it would glitch after a few frames and i would lose my mind and throw my latop away then calm down and decide not to do a mask in my edit :affraid:

well before i learned about disable resample, i used to edit in double frames and render in half so that i won't have glitches, that way i don't miss any frame....But disable resample is better....

disable resample by far best trick gor great masking,even law approves! :lol!:

Crookz wrote:

ok thanks tym :D

& nikos is that what you did on your latest amv? tyms method cuz you have some old episodes in their, well i think the sanji clip is from when hes at the restaurant

Yes that's what i did and which clip exactly do you mean???

nikos150 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

ok thanks tym :D

& nikos is that what you did on your latest amv? tyms method cuz you have some old episodes in their, well i think the sanji clip is from when hes at the restaurant

Yes that's what i did and which clip exactly do you mean???

I meant the sanji mask at the start but you might not have done it because its masked :?:
but thanks for replying ^^

Crookz wrote:

nikos150 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

ok thanks tym :D

& nikos is that what you did on your latest amv? tyms method cuz you have some old episodes in their, well i think the sanji clip is from when hes at the restaurant

Yes that's what i did and which clip exactly do you mean???

I meant the sanji mask at the start but you might not have done it because its masked :?:
but thanks for replying ^^

Well your message was posted together with mine so i missed it before :p . Don't remember, i think i didn't cause it's masked and it's from the arlong arc and sanji is pointing at one of the fishmen who just got out of the water.

nikos150 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

nikos150 wrote:

Crookz wrote:

ok thanks tym :D

& nikos is that what you did on your latest amv? tyms method cuz you have some old episodes in their, well i think the sanji clip is from when hes at the restaurant

Yes that's what i did and which clip exactly do you mean???

I meant the sanji mask at the start but you might not have done it because its masked :?:
but thanks for replying ^^

Well your message was posted together with mine so i missed it before :p . Don't remember, i think i didn't cause it's masked and it's from the arlong arc and sanji is pointing at one of the fishmen who just got out of the water.

oh yh i remember now ^_^