How increase the size of the video in screen TV with the ConverterXtoDVD?

[Codonauta]

Hello.
I started to use the last version of ConvertXtoDVD some days ago. It's a pretty good program, it converts fast, create menu in easy way. But I am having one problem with it. After the conversion and the recording of the empty DVD with the converted video, when I am going to watch with the DVD player connected to a TV, I realize the image in the screen of the TV is not completely used: there is a black strip over the image of the video and another one under it.
How can I manage to increase the size of the image in the TV with that software? I would like to have 100% of the screen
covered by the image, but without losing the edges of the image.
Thanks

[johns0]

If your movie doesnt look squished then thats the the way the movie was made,its a 2.35 aspect ratio so to fit on a 16:9 screen,a 1.78:1 aspect ratio,the black bars have to be added to make it conform to 16:9 ratio.

You cant fill the top or bottom without either cutting the sides down or stretching the screen.

[guns1inger]

The movie is wider that your screen. You have three choices.

1. The right way : Have the black bars above and below the video so you see all the image. This is how commercial DVDs are done.

2. The wrong way (1) : crop the ends off the image and zoom into the centre. You can use the built-in resize to do this. You will lose image though, in order to make it fill the screen.

3. The wrong way (2) : stretch the screen top to bottom so everyone looks tall and thing. You don't lose any image, but everything is distorted.

A final option would be to use the zoom facility on your DVD player/TV to fill the screen without doing permanent damage to the video, so that when you realise that it is better to watch the movie untouched, you still have that option.

[Codonauta]

Goods tips.
My 2 DVDs players are LG. I will try to read the user's guide of them to find out how to expand the image without becoming the videos defective.

[Oilte]

The black edges used to irritate me aswell but then I realised that many commercial dvds are the same as guns1inger just said.
So I just got on with it.

[Codonauta]

Some DVDs which we buy in official stores usually gets the entire screen in the TV, but some ancient movies don't, so I think there is a secret to produce DVDs with total screen image.
In other way, I think would be very good if the companies which produce softwares to work with computer video files would create some tools, or something like that, to do that enlargement of the video size image in the TV screen without distorting the image.

[guns1inger]

DVDs that fill the screen do so by zooming in and cropping off anything that is outside the screen area. You can do this with ConvertXtoDVD. Add a title, expand the title branch, then the video branch, and finally the Video resize branch. Open the resize option screen, select either 4:3 or 16:9 (whatever shape your TV is), then Pan/Scan. This will zoom in and fill the screen, throwing away anything that doesn't fit.

[Codonauta]

I've got it. But doing that do we lose some parts of the edges of the image? Or do we keep all ( 100% ) the image?

[guns1inger]

You cannot have it both ways. You can fill the screen, you can stretch the image, or you can have the entire image with black bars. There is no way you can keep the entire image without bars and without stretching if the source image is wider than your TV. You cannot buy DVDs that get around this problem, because they don't exist. It cannot be done.

To repeat my post from above, your options are :

1. Have black bars, keep the original image aspect ratio, and see the whole image.

2. Zoom into the image (Pan and Scan), filling the screen but losing any image outside the screen area.

3. Resize the image to fill the screen, stretching and distorting the image to make it fit.

That's it. Pick one. ConvertXtoDVD can do any of these, but only option 1 doesn't change the image.

[Codonauta]

Ok.