Resizing Video to compensate for overscan.

[Afterlife]

So the subs in my anime are too low and are being cut off when played on a dvd player.

So I need to resize this to compensate for overscan.

right now I have this as im using 1/2D1

AviSource("C:\FMA 01.avi").LanczosResize(352,480)

I dont man adding black borders to the bottom like in widescreen movies played on a non ws tv. But I dont want the video squashed, and certainly dont want too much cut off the sides.

Does anyone know of a soln to compensate for the bloody overscan?

Thanks!

Source is 640x480(4:3) 23.976.

[guns1inger]

FitCD

[celtic_druid]

Resizing will make no difference, it will still cut a %'age off. You need to add black borders, which FitCD can do.

[guns1inger]

To be accurate, overscan is not your problem. The people who fan sub anime obviously never watch them on a TV, so never place the subs in the correct position. It is they who are the problem. Overscan has been around a lot longer than fan-subbed downloads.

[celtic_druid]

I'm quite sure that they know. They just don't care. Anyone who does is of course welcome to download the raw's and do their own subs or re-encode with borders. Their problem, not the fan-subbers.

[Afterlife]

Ok so I opened FitCD and im in the MPEG Resizing.

I loaded my source picked the destination and now I have to pick the blocks to overscan, i dont know what to do with this so im going to play around, if anyone wants to throw a suggestion out I would appreciate it.

[guns1inger]

2 blocks should be fine. But remember that no two televisions are the same, so on one you might not see the black area at all, while on the next you might see a centimetre all round.

[Afterlife]

ugh, is there no one size fits all solution?

What about croping some of the sides off and making it letterbox style? (like a widescreen?) wouldnt that be better?

[Afterlife]

Ok so 2 seems to be good, 3 was better but then I could see borders on the sides.

If there is a better way to fix this though Id like to know.

[guns1inger]

Don't download fan-subbed anime ?

There is no universal solution other than to do it correctly in the first place. This would mean doing your own subs, as was mentioned before. Then you have the control over where they go. All televisions except for some Plasma and LCD televisions have a degree of overscan. The cheaper the set, generally the larger the overscan area.

Cropping for 16:9 won't solve the problem, as you will be sacrificing sections of the image anyway. If you encode the 4:3 as 16:9 then you will large black bars either side, and will still loose the bottom of the screen on some TVs. The resize and add borders method is the best solution once the horse has left the building.

[junkmalle]

As I said in the other thread, that's the only way to fix the problem. Unless you want to spend a lot of money and buy a studio/medical monitor that doesn't overscan.

[Afterlife]

lol, ok thanks guys. Appreciate the help.

[junkmalle]

There is one other possibility although you may find it difficult to locate: some DVD players will let you zoom out as well as zoom in. My Liteon LVD 2002 lets you adjust the height and width (larger and smaller) of the picture when playing back Divx/Xvid AVI files.