Problem: TV crops my captured videos

[mousevet]

I am capturing video from my DV-camcorder (PAL) and usually encoding the streams to MPEG-2 (6000 Kb/s VBR) with Pinnacle Studio 8. All DVD I author shows the similar problem regardless of authorware:

When playing the streams with a stationary DVD, the TV crops the frame by 10-15 pixels in all four margins of the picture. However, playing the DVD on a computer do nothing of the kind.

Any work-around? Tools to resize the frame while encoding?

/Carsten

[Yorel]

Actually, it is displaying the "cropped" portion. It's hidden by the bezel around your screen. You have to allow for that when adding text, and also when filming.

[mousevet]

Actually, it is displaying the "cropped" portion. It's hidden by the bezel around your screen. You have to allow for that when adding text, and also when filming.

Thanks for a quick answer. Any idea on how to "..allow for that... when filming"? Is it possible to add a black margin by resize and center the frames after capture by say 80%?

[kitty]

Yes, TMPGenc will allow you to do that