Oversan Problems

[tsppm]

Hi, Im new to the fourms and I did do a search on the forums to fix my problem, but Im still confused..

I have a few anime Videos that I want to burn to DVD and watch them on my television. But of course, due to overscan, I cant read the subtitles.. My videos are in Avi format in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The resolution is 640X360. The file sizes are 150MB-200MB in xvid video compression. I have both Virtualdub and TMPGEnc. I would like to use virtual dub to fix this problem, beacuase TMPGEnc is a little more confusing to me. But if I have to use TMPGEnc I will. Do I keep aspect ratio and resize to 720X480? Would that fix my problem? Also when its done encoding the ending file size it way too big! When Im using the filter resize mode in Virtualdub, what filtering mode should I use? Thanks for any help, much aprechiated

[junkmalle]

From the settings dialog in TMPGEnc:

Advanced tab: Set the source aspect ratio to 1:1 VGA. Video Source Type is probably non-interlace (progressive). For Video Arrange Method select Full Screen (keep aspect ratio). This will stretch the image to 720x360 and pad the top and bottom for a final size of 720x480.

If you find that the subtitles extend beyond the left and right of the screen at times you can reduce the size a little. Try setting Video Arrange Method to Center (keep aspect ratio). This will keep the active image a little smaller and pad all sides to give you 720x480.

If you want to resize in VirtualDub I recommend the Lanczos3 filter.

And to reduce the final MPEG file size use a lower bitrate. If you want a specific size use 2-pass VBR. If you don't care about the exact size use Constant Qyality mode -- pick a quality level you're happy with (probably somewhere between 70 and 90 percent) and encode. In that mode you don't know exactly how big a file will turn out but you can get a rough estimate by watching how big the file is getting as the program is encoding. If the file is 300 MB when it's 10 percent done you can guess it will be about 3000 MB when it's complete.

[tsppm]

thank for the help. I found the solution to my problem! I resized my 640x360 movie to a 320x240 resolution. It has 2 small black bars on the horizontal side, and it looks perfect!