I'm a newbie, so forgive me if I sound stupid. I tried encoding an avi file to dvd and everything worked except when I played it on my dvd player, the tv cut off a bit off each side, and the subtitles at the bottom of the screen were in turn unreadable. I looked up a previous post of this kind and the guy who replied said that you could add black borders to the file before you encode and then when the tv cuts it off, it will only cut off those black borders. The only problem is the explanation was kind of difficult to understand and i wasn't able to do it. so is there anyone who can possibly give me a more in depth explanation as to how this is done, or even another viable method of preventing this screen cut off. It would be much appreciated.
Yours is a typical problem of someone ho has a 4:3 screen and tries to see a 16:9 screen. Usually the TV 'cuts off' a little part of the screen, and this is annoying when there's a subtitle writen on it. Do this: 1) open the AVI with VirtualDub. lets suppose it's 640x360. 2) do Filters__add__resize and choose: - New width = 608 - new Heigth = 360 check the 'Expand frame and litter box image' and choose: - frame width = 640 - frame heigth = 360 This way the movie now has 16 pixels E 16 pixels W of black border (which won't bee seen, in your TV). Now make File___Start Frameserver (if you don't have it, double click on auxsetup.exe in VirtualDub's directory and select Install Handler) and save it, e.g. movie.vdr. Now make what you want to do with that AVI (e.g. load it with TMPGenc to transform in to mpeg). If you just need an AVI, instead of File___Start Frameserver, choose a compression with Video__Compression (e.g. DivX multipass) and save (F7). All clear?
