cant copy film to vcd so it shows all the picture

[cs_exile]

i have a file its in a widescreen format, i convert it with tmpgenc to 4:3 or 16:9 but no matter what i do it cuts half the picture off on the sides when played in the the dvd player, i use nero to burn it and the file shows all the picture before burning

[WidowMaker]

in tmpgenc try using Full screen (keep aspect ratio) you can find this in the advanced tab -> video arrange method -> full screen (keep aspect ratio) hope that helps

[Vejita-sama]

Just to add a bit to the above post, in the advance tab settings set:

1) Source aspect ratio: 1:1(VGA)

All PC video should have a DAR of 1:1

2) Under Video arrage method: Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)

This will cause TMPGenc to center the picture using the full witdh, and letterbox the length as necessary to perserve the original DAR.

[WidowMaker]

WHOOPS...forgot about that 1:1 vga setting :P

[adam]

All tv's crop a certain amount of the picture from all sides. Its called overscanning, and usually it crops somewhere between 12-18 pixels. If you are losing much more than this then something may be wrong with your tv.

This is really not something to be concerned about. Basically, anything that has been filmed and released commercially should already have taken overscanning into consideration. When movies are filmed there is a little border drawn on the camera so that the filmer knows what will be cut off. Many editing programs also allow you to overlay these markers over your footage, so you know how it will look on the tv. Try playing some DVDs on your pc vs your tv and you will see that the exact same thing happens. If you are dealing with your own filmed material, then you need to start taking overscanning into consideration when filming.

Just rest easy knowing that whatever gets cut off, you weren't meant to see. The only tweak that you can really do to account for overscanning is to crop and add black borders over the outside areas of your picture. The logic behind this is that you now have ~12-18 less pixels to encode on each side of each frame, so this saves you bitrate. You won't see anymore picture, but what you do see will look better. Of course if you watch the disk on your pc you will have black borders on all sides, so only do this if you watch your stuff primarily on the tv.