I've tried several different software in order to get my anime on DVDs. Finally I found two apps that satisfied my needs, but, something weird started to happen. Thing is, after I do the encoding (source avis: 640x480 and 640x360) and burned everything to a DVD+RW, I noticed that something's not quite right. It seems like the movies are too big, like the dvd player or something else has zoomed the video. Not much, but enough for me to lose one to two centimeters on all sides of the screen. (more on the left side than the right, I believe) Yeah, rather annoying. I thought there was a problem with DIKO, so I switched to Filmmachine. Same problem there. Since I'm going crazy here I decided to ask you people, 'cause you are most likely way more into this than I am. I've tried using both FreeEnc and CCE. I've tried different resolutions and different settings when it comes to the video (i.e. letterboxed, and so on) but all of them result in the same thing; the a little bit zoomed in video. However, I also noticed, when burning, that a menu I created (using Tmpgenc dvd author) also was zoomed in. Which struck me even more as something way wrong. I figured it was my lame PS2, so I had a friend play them on hos _real_ dvd player. Same problem there. I burn the vob-files with Nero or Filmmachines internal dvd-thingy, but that can't possibly it, right? Please, pretty please, tell me you guys have had this problem before and have a mighty fine solution to it. Or something. I'm losing my mind here *sigh* [bold]Edit:[/bold] Tried using NeroVision too, same results there. It's like something moves the whole darn screen way too much to the left (i could see a blue stripe at the right side, probably half a cm wide on our 32" tv (no widescreen). It doesn't even seem to be centered. When playing it in my computer, everything looks great. I'm so confused.
It's called overscan, and you'll have to compensate for it during encoding. DVD Spec is 720x480, so if you letterbox the video to about 704x464, keeping the aspect correct, you should get full picture. Adjust those numbers as needed.
Ah.. But such a thing is not possible with your standard one click dvd authoring tools, is it? I can choose betweena couple of resolutions (i.e. Diko have 720x576 and 704x576 as PAL dvd standard resolutions), so basically what you are saying is that I pretty much must input everything myself in, for example, tmpgenc, and convert everything "manually"? [edit]
Letterbox it before the actual encoding..? But won't I letterbox it twice then (since I'm already etterboxing it in the encoding settings in, say, DIKO)? Um, you don't happen to know a guide for letterboxing? I poked around Afterdawn and google but didn't really come up with anything
A DVD must be 720x480/576. A video may actually be fullscreen, or widescreen, or any other possible aspect ratio. What you need to do, is figure out what the actual movie aspect is, then letterbox what you need to, either in vdub, or during encoding, but not both. If you have a full screen movie, and want to letterbox it, to cut down on overscan, you would apply the same number of black pixels on all 4 sides. If you have a widescreen movie, you will need to add far more pixels top and bottom, than each side, to keep the aspect ratio correct, and still compensate for overscan. Tmpgenc handles this easily, by selecting "Centered, custom size". Providing you KNOW the aspect of your movie (gspot will tell you), you can then figure out the custom size, so it will be letterboxed properly. A fullscreen movie would be centered, custom size at roughtly 700x460. This allows 20 pixels on all sides for overscan, yet keeps the aspect correct.
I see... Then obviously there's no easy way around it. Would it only be one movie or so it'd be a piece of cake, but looking at my anime collection that I want to burn on DVDs... Nah. Way too much. That's mainly why I'm looking for a simply yet good one click dvd authoring tool. ^^ But thanks a lot for your time. You most definitely made a lot of things clear for me.
The single largest problem with one-click, is that they have no options. If you want it done right, you'll have to use multiple tools for the job. Glad to help.
*Nods* Very true. However, something struck me. Is it theoretically possible to edit the AviSynth script that Diko uses? I did some snooping around and well, found out that Diko uses its own AviSynth script. Maybe that's natural ^^ Wouldn't it be possible to add the LanczosResize-tag in the script and input the, for me, right values? Then save the script, and when the application does the encoding, it also adds the borders and such? All automatically?
hey guys, i've been looking for a solution to this problem for a long time. My only difference is I am using .avi files that are of sizes 320x240, 352x240 and 512x384. How would I go about compensating for the overscan with these different sizes whilst still being able to put them all on the one dvd? thanks
