My Vid looks fine on PC but on TV 1 in. border is cut out

[Bookborn]

I have a video file that is in Mpeg and when I put it on my DVD using Nero, it always previews just fine, but the final product on my TV is missing an inch on all sides. So, when text is on the screen and is not centered, it is cut off when too close to the top, bottom, left or right.
It's like my margins are wrong so to speak.
Please help.

[FulciLives]

That is normal.

Just about all televisions have what is called OVERSCAN.

Here is the defination of OVERSCAN from this very website:

Overscan
The area at the edges of a television tube that is covered to hide possible video distortion. Overscan typically covers about 4 or 5 percent of the picture.

When video is viewed on a computer monitor you are seeing the extreme edges (all 4 sides) that are normally "masked" by a TV.

This is an old practise because analog video has a lot of "junk" along the edges.

If you are putting subtitles on the video yourself then you need to adjust them so that they are not so big (thus not so wide) and move them UP so that they aren't too close to the bottom.

If what you have is fan subbed ANIME then you can't of course adjust the subtitles (since they are probably burned in) but you can "shrink" the image overall (this means re-encoding). You have to be sure to maintain the aspect ratio when doing this. There is a program called FitCD that is very good at this. You can set OVERSCAN at 0, 1, 2 or 3 with 0 being none and 3 being the most.

Usually the "2" setting is good enough.

Fan subbed anime in XviD/DivX format always seems to suffer from this ... they put all this effert into making these (usually) nice quality rips with subs (often from scratch) but almost always tend to put the subs too low in the image. Sometimes they also barely fit from right-to-left as well. I still can't figure why they do this LOL

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Bookborn]

Dude. I SOOOO appreciate this. I'm just learning. A blockhead on editing, though a certified helpdesk professional.
I will look into this suggestion and try to make this monster fit better. In my case, I took a quicktime movie that had a narrative which was fancifully scripted on the screen (sometimes in the center, sometimes far left or right or far top or bottom). Very much effort went into this. I converted it to AVI. Now, I need to try what you said and rerender trying the '2' setting. Thanks a billion.
Take care.

(Trying the Fitcd program).
Greetings. Okay, when I have this script editor opened and I've input all the options I want, now what do I do? I didn't see anything that will begin rendering this. It says Stream and Authoring at the top left, and Save Script at the bottom. Once I save script, then what? Sorry to be such a blockhead. I have a DVD in my burner, and source is the file I want and I selected oversize 3 in my experiment here.
I don't know what to do from there though....

[celtic_druid]

You save the script, then use it as your source for encoding. Most apps should handle it fine.

[superheroic]

OK, so if you save the script then what do you do with it once it's saved?

I was having the same problem with .avi video getting an overscan cutoff on my DVDs.

What do you do once you've saved a script?

Where do you put it?

What's the procedure?

Sorry to ask but I'm flying blind here...[/b]

[Mister Flonk-Flonk]

OK, so if you save the script then what do you do with it once it's saved?

Load the script into your encoder in place of your source file. The script will call up the source and manipulate it to whichever arguments specified as it frameserves the file.

[Bookborn]

What encoder should we use? Any suggestions?

[FulciLives]

What encoder should we use? Any suggestions?

Cinema Craft Encoder ... the cheap version is called either BASIC or LITE and goes for just under $60

Another option is TMPGEnc Plus which is also about $60

Personally I prefer CCE myself.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[superheroic]

"Load the script into your encoder in place of your source file."

OK, I know I'm coming across like a complete moron but how would you do this in NERO?

Am I just misunderstanding what an encoder is?

Doesn't NERO encode when it makes the DVD out of the .avi files?

[celtic_druid]

If you mean DVD video, then yes Nero must re-encode.

When you would normally load your mpg, you load the avs instead. Does your script have audio though?

[FulciLives]

Don't use NERO for video encoding.

[Mister Flonk-Flonk]

"Load the script into your encoder in place of your source file."

OK, I know I'm coming across like a complete moron but how would you do this in NERO?

Am I just misunderstanding what an encoder is?

Doesn't NERO encode when it makes the DVD out of the .avi files?

I'm sorry but I'm not going to be of much help to you regarding NERO. I don't go there. All I ever used it for was burning software. Older versions of it at that. (5.5.x.x)

Maybe there's a guide or something someone can point you to. I don't know the first thing about the newer NERO versions. I was just trying to help you figure out what to do with the script. I was assuming NERO handles them.

[ronnylov]

The script from FitCD is an avisynth script. You need to install avisynth and then other programs can open the .avs script file just as it was an avi file. It is called frameserving.

[Bookborn]

Can Pinnacle Studios or Nero or Ulead Video open the avs script files (do frameserving)?
I too am quite a blockhead. I really appreciate the tips.

[superheroic]

OK, maybe I'm just out of my league here.

I don't know the first thing about programming. That's why I posted in the Newbie forum... :O)

I just wanted to make a simple DVD!

Guess there's nothing simple about it, huh?

FitCD doesn't actually use my .avi file as a source does it? It doesn't seem to load anything into it. It just seems to create a file after I've set the settings.

If I try and place the avs script in NERO it just rejects it.

I guess I don't quite understand how you're supposed to use FitCD.

Like I said...I'm a complete moron when it comes to this. Please speak to me as such... :O)

[Bookborn]

Superheroic, Don't feel bad. I'm a Certified Help Desk Professional and do tech support out of my home for a living, and since this is virgin territory for me, I might as well be in Video Editing Kindergarten. Everything has a learning curve. Thank God for sites like this though that nudge in the right direction. Although, I'm still unsure of what direction I'm taking.

[FulciLives]

You have to install AviSynth

You then fire up FitCD and load your AVI file ... this is done by clicking on the SOURCE button (there is an open folder icon next to it).

After you set up the settings (don't worry about the top stuff just the stuff on the bottom "half" of the screen) you save your AVS file.

Now open the AVS file into your MPEG encoder. Do not use NERO. You need to use a "real" encoder such as the two I mentioned already. There are of course more than just those two but NERO is not a good option.

Here is one of the better guides for you to check out ---> CLICK HERE

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
As you will see in the guide I posted a link to that sometimes you have to do special stuff for the audio. The guide does a good job of explaining it.

[superheroic]

OK, I was finally able to get some time to get around to trying this stuff except I had some issues.

TMPGEnc had issue with my .avi file. Said it wasn't supported.

Same thing with CCE.

So I used NERO to convert my .AVI to an MPEG.

Once I did that I used FitCD to make the adjustments to the file I wanted to (2 blocks overscan) and loaded it up to TMPGEnc and made an MPEG-2 file.

But when I went to play the new MPEG-2 (Which had the new black borders) I got no sound!

The NERO MPEG has sound....

Anyone have any idea why this is happening?