bottom of vcd is cut off

[griever]

when i make a vcd that has subtitles on it, the bottom is always cut off. I can't read it. I use TMPGenc. Can anyone tell me a good setting where it won't get cut off if i wanna play the vcd on my TV. and does the source's video size ratio affect the video size after encoding.

[Div286]

ya i just had this problem and posted about it too, it's called overscanning. It could be that your tv is too underscanned. I'm still trying to find a solution.

It's not just the bottom you should notice that the top, and sides are cut off too but since there's no subtitles there it's not as noticeable.

[gonz0]

There's no way to avoid TV cropping, so you'll just have to position your subtitles further away from the bottom. Most TVs will chop 5-10% off each edge. My TV crops ~8% off the bottom, which means I don't want to display subtitles any more than 20 pixels from the bottom (assuming 352x240 resolution).

I've been following the guide here for adding subtitles. The VirtualDub plugin has a y-offset that you can use to shift the subtitles upward. You can also shrink them down. Of course, if your source isn't DVD, this won't be much help

[Div286]

well I think someone solved this problem for me, when I posted concerning this problem frotsen replied with this:

You have to add rezise and add boarders in order to maintain aspect ratio. Fitcd
calculates the right rezise and "take care of the overscanning".

If you using Tmpgenc:
advanced tab: Video arrange method: center custom size:calculated size
video tab: size: enter video size (PAL vcd 352*288 ......)

This way you add boarders and maintain the aspect ratio

Hope it helps frotsen


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well i've encoded the videos and burnt them and it solved my problem so maybe you can give that a try.

[better life]

Well, I have a opposite problem. The subtitles are too high for me, it is at about lower 1/3 of the screen, could any advise me how I can bring it down to the botter of the screen for wide screen or the bottom black area that will be better.