Can i change the picture size of a movie before i burn it?

[Liono]

Hi there, i wonder if anyone can help me with this. When i watch a movie (Normally an AVI file)on my computer it fills the whole screen. When i burn the same movie onto a dvd (i use nero) then watch it on my TV, although i get the whole picture, its compressed into a wide screen shot, so there's like 4 inches at the top and the bottom of the screen that sblack. Is it possible to enlarge the picture size of the AVI file before i burn it?...so it fills my whole tv screen? any help would be most appreciated..thanks

[guns1inger]

You can do this one of two ways. You can encode it for widescreen, but with a 4:3 aspect ratio set. This will play it back stretched vertically to fill the screen. I suspect this is how you watch it now.

Otherwise you have to crop off the ends, then resize the whole image, before you encode.

What do you use to encode at the moment ?

[Liono]

You can do this one of two ways. You can encode it for widescreen, but with a 4:3 aspect ratio set. This will play it back stretched vertically to fill the screen. I suspect this is how you watch it now.

Otherwise you have to crop off the ends, then resize the whole image, before you encode.

What do you use to encode at the moment ?

I just use nero express to burn the file onto the dvd, what do you suggest i use to encode it?
thanks

[guns1inger]

A real encoder ?

You would have to use either an editor that lets you ecode, or avisynth or virtualdub, then frameserve to an encoder.

Personally, I'd rather have the whole image, rather than butcher it.