Overscan

[Fanforever]

I read the thread about overscan but I don't understand how FitCD works with AviSynth. I mean they're two completely unrelated programs but you say stuff like AviSynth is a script of FitCD etc. etc. I have no idea what what or how to correct overscan with them. So how?

[guns1inger]

Fitcd creates an avisynth script for you, that will resize the video and add the necessary borders to allow your image to remain within the safe area of most televisions screens. When you encode, you load the avisynth script instead of the avi itself, and your encoder will encode the video with borders, ready for authoring.

The scrip section is the bottom third of the FitCD screen.

[Fanforever]

Will encoding make the avi file lose quality? Also, what are the recommended settings that will prefectly fit the black borders in overscan areas?

[guns1inger]

Yes, there is a risk of quality reduction, however if should be minimal if you use the right settings. These vary from file to file, so don't ask for exact numbers.

Overscan is not a fixed number. 2 blocks is usually enough, however the actual area covered varies from TV to TV. On some you may see some of the border, and on others still lose a little of the image.

[Fanforever]

I have no idea how to use this avisynth thing. It's not even a program. I can't even open it.

[gadgetguy]

From the AviSynth documentation that you can find in the same folder where you installed AviSynth:

Basically, AviSynth works like this: First, you create a simple text document with special commands, called a script. These commands make references to one or more videos and the filters you wish to run on them. Then, you run a video application, such as VirtualDub, and open the script file. This is when AviSynth takes action. It opens the videos you referenced in the script, runs the specified filters, and feeds the output to video application. The application, however, is not aware that AviSynth is working in the background. Instead, the application thinks that it is directly opening a filtered AVI file that resides on your hard drive.