How do you add horizontal border to avi or vcd?

[monyong]

How do you add horizontal border to avi or vcd?

[Stinky]

with what program? why do you need it? are you converting a 'widescreen' DivX ?

I can give you an answer if I had more info.

[Truman]

Easy way with TMPG, advanced tab: source aspect ratio 1:1 full screen keep aspect ratio
Video tab: load a vcd template.
If you want to know a more advanced way, tell us the resolution of the avi, borders yes/no, and the tools you are willing to use.

[monyong]

I need to add border so that subtitle on the video do not get cut off by tv screen. Actually need border on each side of video, horizontal and vertical. Is there any way of calculating the size of borders?

Truman : if i set ratio to 1:1 it will keep ratio of original video , hows that suppose to add horizontal border? I willing to use any tool to do it.

[Truman]

I did guess, that you want to add borders to a widescreen movie to play it on a 4:3 TV. Please explain your problem clearly next time.
OK, use Avisynth to frameserve and resize to your favorite MPEG encoder. I guess, the source 640x480. (Probably it isn't, but why don't you tell us the source resolution?)

Here is the sample script:

AviSource("D:\..path..\test.avi")
BilinearResize(448,544,4,0,632,480)
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)

If you use CCE, modify the script a little.

AviSource("D:\..path..\test.avi")
BilinearResize(448,542,3,0,634,480)
AddBorders(16,17,16,17)


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Truman on 2001-11-30 17:34:02 ]</font>

[Truman]

Excuse me, the scrips were for SVCD. Once again:

#VCD PAL
AVISource("........avi")
BilinearResize(320,256,0,0,640,480)
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)

#VCD PAL, CCE used
AVISource(".................avi")
BilinearResize(320,254,0,2,640,476)
AddBorders(16,17,16,17)

#VCD NTSC
AVISource("........avi")
BilinearResize(320,208,0,6,640,468)
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)

#VCD NTSC, CCE used
AVISource(".......avi")
BilinearResize(320,206,0,8,640,464)
AddBorders(16,17,16,17)