TMPGenc problem...subtitles cutting off on TV.

[meccaho]

Hi, i'm encoding a 640x480 file with hardcoded subtitles, when i burn to dvd, the subtitles are almost off the tv screen. Is there a way around this?

I'm using NTSC format, with tmpgenc xpress.

[daamon]

Hi meccaho,

There is a part of the TV screen that cannot be screen because it is covered by the moulding which holds the screen in its housing - this is called the "overscan" area.

You need to figure out - most probably by educated guessing and "trial and error" - how much of the picture is covered by the overscan.

Having not needed to do this, I can't reliably tell you how to take the overscan into consideration. But this, in effect, is what you're asking - I just thought I'd give you some background.

Good luck...

[mats.hogberg]

When you resize, resize to a vertically smaller size (~16-32 px) than full DVD res. Add black bars top & bottom to compensate upp to full DVD vert res. How to do that depends on what you use, but I recommend VirtualDub or AviSynth (frameserving to your encoder)

/Mats