Well, how to upload a shot and don't lose the quality?
The shot's canvas (the whole black area in WTM where your shot is shows) has 720 x 400 pixels. The ratio of canvas proportion is 1,8 (720/400). If a shot larger of shorter than this, the system automaticaly resize the shot using the width or height and if it happen you lose quality.
So, follow one of these steps:
* Example 1: http://whatthemovie.com/shot/30780 If your shot has a ratio bigger than the canvas you've got to set the WIDTH. That shot has originally 1920 x 792 (1920/792 = 2,42). Resize 1920 to 720 on photoshop (GIMP, FireWorks or another program). The shot now has 720x297 and the same ratio.
* Example 2: http://whatthemovie.com/shot/53480 In the other hand if your shot's ratio is shorter than the canvas, you've got to set the HEIGHT instead. It has originally 1440 x 1080 (1440/1080 = 1,33). In this case resize 1080 to 400. The shot now has 533x400 and keep the right proportion.
Blu-ray's total area 1920 x 1080 DVD's total area 720 x 405 Both of them are 16/9 widescreen.
Beware when you resize it. If you don't cut correctly a white line will appear.
DVD is *not* 720x405 (by the way, this ratio won't fit the WTM frame, because 405 > 400).
Plus there are two kind of DVDs : - enhanced for widescreen TVs = anamorphic = 16x9 - 4x3
And DVD screenshots can be : * 1024x576 if DVD is PAL and 16x9 enhanced * 853x480 if DVD is NTSC and 16x9 enhanced * 768x576 if DVD is PAL and *not* 16x9 enhanced * 640x480 if DVD is NTSC and *not* 16x9 enhanced
To make a long story short : your post is a little confusing, freddelgado... I think users should just stick to that --> http://siboul.free.fr/wtm/
personal rant about the movie industry: who the *bleep* thought it was a good idea to have black bars in the video stream? just let the player scale/center the video stream on the output device, ffs...