Conversion Help

[quinn]

After doing a few conversions with multiple trials and errors, I am running into one simple problem.

A few of the toons I am converting from Japan have sub-titles in them, which is wonderful on the computer, however, they seem to get cropped out when I convert them to VCD/SVCD and watch them on my DVD player. We love them but have not found a way to shrink the video while having a slight black border to stop the cropping from the TV.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

Quinn

[j-a-w]

What are you using to convert the files. Knowing this will help in answering the question.

[quinn]

I have been using TMPGEnc and VirtualDub but the only thing I have been able to do successfully is 'crop' pictures and not seem to add borders. 'tis frustrating...

--Quinn

[bunyip]

You can do this easily with the re-size filter in VirtualDub.

The following settings will squeeze the picture by 10 pixels top & bottom (change this to suit your needs).

For SVCD (NTSC) :
New width: 352
New height: 460
Tick 'Expand frame & letterbox image'
Frame width: 352
Frame height: 480
(Use the 'Show preview' to see the results).

For VCD (NTSC):
New width: 352
New height: 220
Tick 'Expand frame & letterbox image'
Frame width: 352
Frame height: 240

Then frameserve this to TMPGenc.