Is ATI's Record Cropped Video advantegeous when making dvds?

[M3E46Dude]

Lordsmurf's guide discusses using MPEG2 DVD setting on the ATI capture cards w/ the Record Cropped Video. Once I did that I noticed that it actually put a black frame around the video. It did remove some of the unused lines at the bottom, but I think it removed more lines than it needs be. Also, does that decrease the bitrate required for equal quality since now you have black surface area on the video?

I thank you guys in advance.

[Sulik]

That's right. It reduces the bitrate for the same quality, so you will end up with higher quality and/or lower file sizes in VBR mode. I always enable it when capturing for DVD.

[lordsmurf]

It only covers over the overscan, nothing more. You don't need overscan. It thus allows better bitrate allocation on the actual image.