Making the movie fit my TV

[Chakotay2]

I am using TMPG to convert avi to SVCD. I am using aspect ratio of 4:3 Display and source aspect ratio of 4:3 525 NTSC. I am using the SVCD NTSC template and have tried several different video arrange methods...Full screen, full screen keep aspect, center, center keep aspect, no margins keep aspect, etc. I have even tried center custom size. I just can't seem to get movies to fit my TV screen correctly... and because I am using 2 pass VBR, it is a long time to re-encode the movie and try again. Can anyone Help? I have read how to's and they suggest full screen keep aspect ratio...but when burnt and played on my tv with a pioneer dv-444 it doesn't take the whole screen. When I use center custom size, I am not sure what size to use...when it looks good in tmpg it cuts off words on the sides when played on the tv. Please help!

[pres]

Hi,

This problem is applicable on all TVs. Most TVs do not display the edges of a frame. In TMPGEnc you can overcome this problem by selecting:

center custom size

Choose a custom size that is smaller then your MPEG2 bitmap, by decreasing the horizontal and vertical sizes with the following format depending values:

Top & bottom edges - 24 PAL 18 NTSC
Left & right edges - 30 PAL 27 NTSC

Example:
PAL SVCD format 480x576 => use custom display size 420x528
NTSC SVCD format 480x480 => use custom display size 426x444

I found this information here:
http://geocities.com/svaussie01au/index.html

Good luck

[Chakotay2]

Does anyone here have more info? I emailed the author of the web page referenced and he contradicts everything in the convert how to on this page. Can anyone tell me how I can make sure it fits my screen?