Newby here. I've copied a bunch of home, family videos (VHS and Hi8 analog) to DVD using stand alone DVD burners. The resultant DVDs look good when played on television. When played on Mac's DVD Player, however, there is a band of 'noise' along the bottom of the picture, approx. 1/8'th inch. This band does not show when played on a tv. The horizontal band along the bottom appears when played on various Macs, regardless of the DVD burner used. It is as thought the burner is capturing information from the tapes (perhaps along the edge) that isn't needed for TV play, but which the DVD Player plays. Can I avoid this problem by capturing the analog tapes directly to a media converter and onto my computer, with a goal to burn DVD's from the computer for use elsewhere. The goal is to get the analog tapes onto digital format where they will play on both computers and tvs without the irritating horizontal band along the bottom. Suggestions? thanks!
The irritating band you describe is caused by the tape to head contact and is in the overscanned area of most if not all TV viewable area's. In other words when you playback your finished DVDs on a TV you will not see the band, you only see it when watching them on a computer using software. That is why you see it on various comps. either MAC or PCs but not on any TV. I hope this explains it a little.
thanks. it's good to know I didn't screw up the original burning (which took a lot of time). is there any way to get rid of the bands when playing the DVDs on a computer? dp
To the best of my knowledge the quick answer is NO. Viewing it in full screen may reduce it a little but will not eliminate it. Your computer screen is poor for watching DVDs and TV pictures on anyway compared to a TV.
thank you very much for the quick reply. now I know just to live with it instead of wasting effort to fix the unfixable. dp
It is fixable but probably not advisable. You can crop the 1/8 off the bottom but then you would have to re-encode the DVD. With every re-encode the original movie will degrade. If it annoys you enough you can do it using TMPGEnc. Also the TV will still hide that area so you will get 1/8 less of a picture on TVs after.
