Re-render needed with MPG capture???

[BobK]

I just started using a card that captures video in mpg (instead of avi). I captured some video and burned it to a DVD. Before watching the DVD I noticed that the image on the monitor had black space at the sides of the picture and some noise at the bottom. I loaded the video into TMPGEnc Plus and used the 'Clip Frame' option to take out the black and noise- then re-rendered it to a new mpg which I burned to a disk.

Then I looked at both disks- they look the same. I played both disks on 2 standalones and 2 different TVs. The noise and black spaces that were visible on the computer did not appear on the TV screen.

Before I burn any more I'd like to know why. I don't want to burn a bunch of disks that don't appear to have the black and the noise only to find out later that it shows up again on a different standalone or TV combination.

Anybody know? (I'm using a Videoh! PCI capture card at the moment).

[redwudz]

NTSC TV ( And probably PAL) use 'overscan" that cuts off the sides and tops of what you see on a computer monitor. You should check your finished project on TV if that is your final destination. If you plan to encode for computer only, do the trim. TV does'nt generally need it.

[BobK]

Thanks for a fast answer.