544x306 divx to SVCD. How to Resize?

[PNPman]

Everything was fine until i found out my tvs were overscanning, thus cutting off subtitling in some shows. So now i'm encoding them with borders to compensate. I'm just wondering if i'm doing this right.

I'm using FitCD to calculate the crop and resize.
divx original: 544x306
crop: 534x306
resize: 448x350
destination size: 480x480

VirtualDub filters
SSA filter. to bring in the subtitles
0 filter. set cropping to 534x306
resize filter. set resize 448x350 set dest size 480x480

Framserve to TMPGEnc 12i

Now here is where i get lost 8(

TMPGEnc
What is the source(1:1, 4:3 display)?
What should i set the destination to be 4:3, 16:9?

Am i even close?! Can someone suggest how to turn this 717mb high quality 90 min divx at 23.97 with an ssa subtitle file into a SVCD that i can play on my tv. A 416x416 in a 480x480 fits perfect, 448x448 in 480x480 is usually an exceptable loss. Seems i gotta stay in multiples of 32 or the sound goes out of sync.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[PNPman]

Can ne1 help on the settings i should use in TMPGEnc?

[PNPman]

I'll give up my left testicle for some help here. I'd offer the right but i came home late last night and the wife ....

[Truman]

Since you do all the resize and crop with Virtual Dub, source in TMPG is 1:1, full screen (keep aspect ratio) and destination is 4:3, if your tv is 4:3. If you have a 16:9 TV, select 16:9.
But when I'm wrong, I don't give a testicle away, not even the left one.

[PNPman]

8)
Thanks for the input Truman.

Unfortunately, the setup messed up the subtitling so it was hardly readable. I had no motion search on. So this time around i'm gonna just do the subtitling and crop to 534x306 in VirtualDub. The resizing to 448x350 in TMPGEnc.

1 - Is the source aspect ratio still 1:1 VGA?
2 - Is the video source progressive?

Even on my dual P3 1Gig with 1Gig of RAM this re-encoding is taking about 6Hours. I've killed 4 days trying different variations of filters. Don't ask me why i didn't cut a small sample of the movie and test on that. Cause i couldn't tell you. But at this point i just wanna get this done.

[Truman]

I guess you used video arrange method "Center(costom size)".
Then the other aspect ratio setting does not matter.
Are you sure, you keep the aspect ratio by doing this?

[PNPman]

LOL, if i knew these things i wouldn't be asking.
So i guess what i really need to know is what format is the audio/video that virtualdub frameserves.

[PNPman]

can someone spell out what settings they would use to achieve the best svcd or xsvcd in TMPG to get the best quality video with legible subtitling.

[Elchknie]

i do all my frameserved movies serve as 4:3 source file (except there is one 16:9 anamorphic movie, but even there i prefer to add black bars and encode it as 4:3). tried anamorphic 16:9 movie on a yamakawa dvd.player and it looked like shit, fuzzy picture all the time. don't know if it was caused by wrong field order or the 16:9 scale.

video arrange method is always "center".

just my 2 Euro,

-Elchknie

[Truman]

DivX original 544x306
Virtual Dub:
0 filter, crop to 536x304 (x1=4, y1=1, x2=4, y2=1)
resize filter, 448x360, bicubic,
expand and letterbox: yes
new: 448x480
frameserve to TMPG http://www.vcdhelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

TMPG:
video tab, resolution 480x480, aspect ratio 4:3
advanced tab, source aspect ratio 4:3 full screen(keep aspect ratio)
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2nd way
Open TMPG, select the divx as video source
advanced tab, clip frame (left=4, top=1, right=4, buttom=1)
video arrange method Center(costom size) 448x360
video tab, res 480x480, aspect ratio 4:3

hope this helps

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Truman on 2001-08-09 05:13:59 ]</font>

[PNPman]

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl today.