Portion of video (left and right) being cut-off when burned to DVD

[doggieusa]

Hello. I used convertxtodvd to burn avi files to DVD video discs. I noticed that a portion of the video is being cut-off on the left and right sides of the video when it is played on TV. What's wrong, and how can I avoid it.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

It's not the video. The video is fine. Play it on your PC and you will see it is all there. The problem is your TV. It's the wrong shape. You need to get a wider one.

OK. It's not quite that bad. In fact, pretty much every DVD you watch, every TV show broadcast, also loses some of the sides. It's called Overscan. Basically, the display surface (tube, LCD panel etc) extend past the edge of the visible area. There are historic reasons for this. Look up the glossary or wikipedia if you want to know more.

Can you fix it ? If you have to. Generally the only reason to is that some moron put the subtitles in the wrong the place.

I don't believe the current version of ConvertXtoDVD can do anything for you. Version 3 allows you to adjust for it. Basically you have to resize the image to be smaller, then add black bars around it. You used to have to use avisynth and fitCD to do this. Now you can use DVD Flick or FAVC instead. Both have overscan adjustment, and both are arguably better, although slower, than convertXtoDVD.

Me, I keep all three around, as they each have a place.

[doggieusa]

Thank you. Convertxtodvd 3 now have overscan adjustment but is resizing the video. I think instead of cropping the left and right, it now crops the top and the bottom. I will try FAVC. Thanks again.

This overscanning is really irritating as I am burning hardsubbed videos.

[theewizard]

its not cropping the top & bottom, its adding black bars 'letter boxing' to fill in the empty space after it resizes the width..

if it did not do this you would have pictures that was squished , too tall & thin

wides screen doesn't fit on a regular TV unless you change something

you block off the sides so it fills the screen, or you shrink the width and letter box

and the older version of convertX, encodes WS 16:9 video but flags it as 4:3 'pan & scan' and the DVD player chops of the sides to fill the screen

BEfore you burn, the video_vts folder, use infoEdit to change the aspect settings in IFO files to 16:9 letterbox

then burn the disc with imgBurn, and it will display properly