Exact width and height.. I need help.

[webking]

Hello guys,

That's my first time here and i need yor help.

I'm a beginner on DVD author, and I use to be downloads some movies from WEB. Most of them has fixed legends and this is the problem.

The problem is, that the subtitles are imputed in the very bottom of movie, and when i try to convert the movie to 720X480 NTSC format, on my TV the subtitles are cuted and i only can view one line of the text.

The movie in question has 512X368 format, can somebody tell me which exact width and height I should to resize, to it don't cut the subtitles anymore?

Thanks guys

[Capmaster]

These are the DVD-Video standard resolutions:

MPEG-2, 525/60 (NTSC): 720x480, 704x480, 352x480, 352x240
MPEG-2, 625/50 (PAL): 720x576, 704x576, 352x576, 352x288
MPEG-1, 525/60 (NTSC): 352x240
MPEG-1, 625/50 (PAL): 352x288

I'm a bit surprised that your video editing app actually cuts off the bottom instead of resizing all the information. Have you tried another app?

[mats.hogberg]

I should thing that this is caused by TV overscan - a TV puts the borders of the image outside the visible area. As AVi is not intended for TV, you can put the subs at the absolute edge of the image, but not so for TV viewing. The solution is to add a like 16 px border when encoding to mpg. How, depends on your encoder.

/Mats

[webking]

These are the DVD-Video standard resolutions:

MPEG-2, 525/60 (NTSC): 720x480, 704x480, 352x480, 352x240
MPEG-2, 625/50 (PAL): 720x576, 704x576, 352x576, 352x288
MPEG-1, 525/60 (NTSC): 352x240
MPEG-1, 625/50 (PAL): 352x288

I'm a bit surprised that your video editing app actually cuts off the bottom instead of resizing all the information. Have you tried another app?
/Mats

Normally I use TmpEnc for this task, using the DVD NTSC template.

I should thing that this is caused by TV overscan - a TV puts the borders of the image outside the visible area. As AVi is not intended for TV, you can put the subs at the absolute edge of the image, but not so for TV viewing. The solution is to add a like 16 px border when encoding to mpg. How, depends on your encoder.

/Mats

Thanks guys for answers; But I think that mats.hogberg understood better my doubt, your answer seems to be a more closer of the real solution.
So, which tools you recommends me to this task, then I try to find a tutorial for it.

thanks

[mats.hogberg]

I usually run my AVIs thru VirtualDub and frame serve to TMPGEnc. In VD, I resize (resize filter) to let's say 704*448 (if I should encode to NTSCl) then letterbox it in 720*480 leaving 8 px black border left/right, and 16 px top/bottom.

/Mats

[webking]

I usually run my AVIs thru VirtualDub and frame serve to TMPGEnc. In VD, I resize (resize filter) to let's say 704*448 (if I should encode to NTSCl) then letterbox it in 720*480 leaving 8 px black border left/right, and 16 px top/bottom.

/Mats

Ok friend, I'll try it!!

Wish me good luck... see you