VHS to DVD Problem

[sayer]

I need to transfer my VHS tapes to DVD.

I find there is a problem with the height of the recording to DVD, it is to small
how can I fix this?????

[titigrom]

We need more info about your material. Is it a DVD recorder with VHS deck built-in ? Your DVD deck is outputting to your TV set by analogue cables ones or digital like HDMI ?

[redwudz]

Do you mean the aspect ratio is wrong and everything is stretched horizontally? Or is the top of the video cut off? It should be 720 x 576 for a standard PAL DVD. What's MediaInfo show the dimensions as? What did you use to convert from VHS to DVD?

Giving so little information will also give you so little answers.

[sayer]

Standard VHS tape deck only, at the moment using aerial cable to Computer & Wintv PVR 350 card.
Very good Picture recorded.
But the very bottom of picture has a distortion, as though a very smalll piece missing, is it to do with lines,???
How can this be fixed it??

[Noahtuck]

But the very bottom of picture has a distortion, as though a very smalll piece missing, is it to do with lines,???
How can this be fixed it??

It is on every VHS tape recording you just don't see it on a TV because of overscan.

[sayer]

Sorry to come back about this.
I am very new to all this!!!!

At the moment I have copied a VHS tape on to my computer as an MPEG file.

When I play this file on my computer I get at the very bottom of picture a distortion, as though a very small
piece missing, this is a bit of a problem!!!.Can not this be fixed??

Are you saying that when I Burn a disc, the lines will go away??

When I transfer these tapes is there a better way to do it, so I do not have this distortion???????????

[DB83]

The distortion will still be there but when you view the video on a tv a few lines are not displayed (the overscan) so you will not notice it.

If it really bothers you, you can crop the lines away and resize the picture but you will also potentially create other problems so as long as you cannot see them on a tv then it would be best not to worry about them.

[titigrom]

Ah alright ! this distorsion is normal. This part of the picture is due to the heads switch when the VCR is recording. It "disappears" on the TV set when watching the recording because of overscan of the picture...

[Noahtuck]

When I play this file on my computer I get at the very bottom of picture a distortion, as though a very small
piece missing, this is a bit of a problem!!!.Can not this be fixed??

See this,
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/321228-VHS-to-DVD-Problem?p=1989010&viewfull=1#post1989010

Are you saying that when I Burn a disc, the lines will go away??

No, i did not and am not saying that.

When I transfer these tapes is there a better way to do it, so I do not have this distortion???????????

See this,
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/321228-VHS-to-DVD-Problem?p=1989010&viewfull=1#post1989010

Or you could potentially make more problems or lose quality by doing what DB83 suggested.

you do not see the outer edges of any video on most tv's because of OVERSCAN.
Oh wait, i think i already said that.

At the upper left hand corner of every page on this site is a link called "glossary"

https://www.videohelp.com/glossary?O#Overscan

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.

[titigrom]

I won't crop the lines because other problems can appear as DB83 said. I suggest you to fill the borders of the picture with black. I use a AviDemux filter built-in.

[redwudz]

A bit further explanation about cropping with a interlaced MPEG DVD video. If you crop without resizing, you may run into two problems.

The first may be interlacing problems such as messed up field order that can cause jumping in the video. By cropping one line, or a odd number of lines, you may change the field order.

The second is that the video will no longer be a DVD compliant dimension. For PAL video that's usually 720 x 576 pixels. That's why with interlaced material (Most MPEG video), it's better to re-encode with black bars to hide the noise if you want to avoid this.

The main downside to cropping, resizing, or adding black bars is you have to re-encode the video, resulting in more quality loss.

But it won't matter if you plan to view it on most TVs as the edges are hidden by the overscan. Some newer LCD/Plasma TVs don't apply overscan, so it depends on what you view it on and the settings used. Computer monitors don't have overscan, so you always see the edges that are normally hidden by a TVs overscan.

As you see, it's a bit more complex problem than it seemed to be at first.