Reauthoring?

[beard0708]

I was wondering if there was a way to reauthor Blu-Ray discs so you can change the letterboxed movies to anamorphic 1.85:1? If you have to watch a letterbox Blu-Ray, I will stick to DVD because if half the screen is gone, is the quality much different?

[hamisht]

what blu-ray movies are letterboxed? There might be a couple different ways to describe letterbox. When I talk about letterbox I think of this:




where a 2.35:1 film has been formatted to fit a 4:3 tv, by adding more black at the top and bottom to preserve the aspect ratio. I havnt seen any Blu-Ray films like that.

then you have this:




where the film is in the correct aspect ratio, that HAS been designed for Widescreen 16:9 TVs.


Are you saying you want to crop a movie from 2.35:1 to 1.85:1 so it will fill your widescreen TV? that means you would lose a hell of a lot of film on either side. if you are, yes, you would lose picture quality. Its probably just as easy to use the ZOOM function, or scroll through your Aspect Ratio button on your TV remote to find a 'cinema' function that matches what you want, that will zoom in on the image to make it fill your widescreen tv (assuming you have a widescreen tv).

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by beard0708

I was wondering if there was a way to reauthor Blu-Ray discs so you can change the letterboxed movies to anamorphic 1.85:1? If you have to watch a letterbox Blu-Ray, I will stick to DVD because if half the screen is gone, is the quality much different?

If the original movie is shot in 2.35:1 or 2.40:1. stretching it to fill the screen(1.78:1) will be cutting off the left and right sides of the picture.

Reauthoring means you will be ripping the movie(I'm guessing) and discussion of ripping is against the rules here:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=83207

*IF* you wish the picture to fill your display, use the HDTV's "Zoom" feature to zoom in on it.
You will still be cutting off the sides but it will fill the screen.

Most people prefer OAR - Original Aspect Ratio.
Do a search here for "Black Bars".

[beard0708]

That's what I thought I had to do. I just think the issue of aspect ratios is complicated, but thanks for the help.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by beard0708

That's what I thought I had to do. I just think the issue of aspect ratios is complicated, but thanks for the help.

It really isn't that complicated.

With Blu-ray, the way it appears onscreen is the way it is meant to be seen. Very rarely do the black bars cover more than 20% of the screen. Even then, I'd much rather be able to see everything that the director intended to have in frame. Getting rid of those black bars pushes the left and ride sides of the image out of view, thus chopping an average of 33% of the film away. Therefore, to me, 20% of the screen being black bars is better than losing 33+% of the film!

P.S. Re-authoring is definitely a process that would involve illegally ripping the Blu-ray software. We don't encourage nor condone such activities on Blu-ray.com

[OrlandoEastwood]

Originally Posted by hamisht

What movie is that from?

[hamisht]

Michael Mann's 'The Keep'. Great film. Still waiting for the extended Directors Cut, but not holding my breath.