Overscan problem

[littlegreenapple]

I understand there's many of these topics around and I did do a search on it..but I'm still having difficulties trying to fix this problem.

I tried converting a hardsubbed AVI movie to DVD (PAL) and noticed that it was too wide for the (4:3) TV and the subtitles were getting cut off on the sides.

I read that the solution would be to resize the video and add borders around it but I'm not sure on how to go about doing it. It seems that people use fit2CD and avisynth but they make no sense to me. I'm an absolute newbie to this.

The video size is 720 x 400. What should it be resized to? What procedures or settings do I need to be aware of?

I have the programs TMPGEnc, VirtualDub and MainConcept for encoding and TMPGEnc DVD Author and NeroVision Express for authoring.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[jimmalenko]

FitCD tells me that this AVISynth script should work:

DirectShowSource("filename.ext")
BicubicResize(688,416,0,0.6,0,0,720,400)
AddBorders(16,80,16,80)

You should then be able to load this into TMPGEnc or MainConcept.

I've attached this in an AVISynth script for your convenience:

file.avs

All you need to do is download and install AVISynth, and then open the script file in Notepad and change the script so that the name of your source file is where the filname.ext is (keeping the quotes at each end). If your script file is in the same directory as the source file then you don't need the full path including drive letter. If they're in seperate directories, then you do.

[littlegreenapple]

Thank you for your help.

[jagabo]

Alternate method using only TMPGEnc (slower and lower quality because TMPGEnc's resizing isn't as good as AVISynth):

[kschang]

Use FitCD's size calculator, even generates AVISynth script for you!

[neoblood]

I ahve the same problem using TMPGenc do i enter the coustom size shown or what?

[jagabo]

I ahve the same problem using TMPGenc do i enter the coustom size shown or what?

Use FitCD to determine what size you need then use either of the two methods suggested earlier. TMPGEnc's "center custom size" or resize with AVISynth.

[neoblood]

I open the video in fit cd and it say to resize it to 640x480 i enter that in tmpgenc and previewed it and it just cut the sides not the top and bottem like i need to read the subs.

[jagabo]

I open the video in fit cd and it say to resize it to 640x480 i enter that in tmpgenc and previewed it and it just cut the sides not the top and bottem like i need to read the subs.

I'm guessing you had a PAL vs NTSC setting problem.