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Anamorphic encoding high bitrate - how to resize?

I've come to like anamorphic DVD to XviD encoding without resizing the source. However more often than not you need insane bitrates that clash with my space requirements. So I guess (if I don't want to go for a different matrix, right now I'm using 6of9 hvs) I have to resize. But how?

My source is PAL anamorphic material with an output picture aspect ratio of 2.35.

Should I resize to the correct aspect ratio? I'd have something like 720x304. Or should I resize proportionally without changing the aspect ratio and encode anamorphically from the lower resolution source? In my case 608x368 for example.

Anamorphic encoding high bitrate - how to resize?

Reply #1 –
I don't change the source aspect ratio in my encodes. I just resize proportionally to a lower resolution after cropping all black borders of course. AFAIK the human eye is more sensitive to lower vertical resolution than horizontal. So playing anamorphically seems like a better idea.

Anamorphic encoding high bitrate - how to resize?

Reply #2 –
Like you suggested, I went the resized anamorphic route and the result is excellent.