Cropped image on TV set

[alvabass]

Hi again.

I downloaded a movie from the Net and burned it to DVD using TMPGEnc DVD Author. Before that, I encoded it to DVD format using TMPGEnc Plus. Normally, I use the Full Screen (Keep aspect ratio 2) from the Clip Frame tool in TMPGEnc. I've used that many times and it always work OK, but now I have a problem with this: I added subtitles to the movie using VirtualDub's subtitler filter and everything looks fine on my PC monitor, but on my TV set, the subtitles can hardly be read since the image is cropped. I know about that TV sets' resolution difference, but I hadn't had that problem before (supposedly, the "Keep aspect ratio" setting takes care of that). I'd like to re-encode the movie in a viewable resolution while keeping the original aspect ratio, but I don't know how to solve that problem since none of the options from TMPGEnc's Clip Frame tool seem to fix it. I know there's a custom size, but I don't know how to use it without messing the original aspect ratio. Thank you in advance!

P.S.: I know that I can change the subtitles' margins, but unfortunately I deleted the original movie since I didn't expect this. Currently I have an AVI file with permanent subtitles and a DVD-compliant MPEG file from the same AVI.

[BJ_M]

shrink the size 10% and add black borders

see "overscan"

[ZippyP.]

linky: https://www.videohelp.com/glossary?O#Overscan

[redwudz]

If you do a little reading in the Subtitle Forum, you will see quite a few references to your 'Overscan' problem and methods for resizing. It's quite a common problem with subtitle videos.

Unfortunately, you need to re-encode the video to resize it, so this is best done when you add the subs in VirtualDub. Or you can set the subs higher when you first encode them, but you will still lose part of your picture to overscan unless you add the black boarders.