DVD Screen Cut Error

[Takumi]

I recently burnt 3 subtitled shows and two of them has a wierd "errors" and the other doesn't.

The problem is on the one show, when burnt to dvd, the image is cut on the bottom so only 1/3 of the text(subtitle) can be read, maybe an inch of viewing space is cut off the bottom on my tv, but another show with the same size image (704x480) works fine and no image is lost on the bottom. (I even tried setting the Aspect ratio to 4:3, 16:9 and automatic and every time is is the same). Also, I tried playing the disc on a widescreen portable dvd player and it played fine, subtitles were visible, but its a fullscreen show.

The same seems to happen for another show that is subtitled but is widescreen, a slight bit off the sides is cut off and makes subtitles illegible. (Tried setting aspect ratio to 16:9 and automatic and there is no change)

The program I am using is NeroVision Express 3. Any help on this topic would be so appreciated, Thank you in advance.

[r0lZ]

Use DVDSubEdit to move your subpics. It's really simple. Don't forget to "apply to all", or you will move only one subpic.

[Takumi]

They are "burnt in" subtitles, they are part of the video/image and are uneditable (.AVI files).

[r0lZ]

Hum, in this case, you can't do much more than trying to resize the video a little bit (or crop some pixels at the upper border) and add a small black border at the bottom. Not sure if Nero can do that...

[Takumi]

Do you know the name of a good program for altering the Height and Width of a video file?

[r0lZ]

I suggest using VirtualDub-MPEG2. Despite its name, it's an AVI editor. But if you don't want to loose quality and time by reencoding your AVI to AVI before encoding again to VOB, you have to frameserve directly to an MPEG encoder, and forget Nero.

There are good guides on the main Doom9 site on how to frameserve with VirtualDub. (BTW, VirtualDub-MPEG2 is the latest variant of VirtualDub.)

Oh, also, to cut the video with VirtualDub, use the "null" filter. (It is actually possible to cut with any filter, but if you don't need to add another filter, the null filter is sufficient.)

You might also want to try AVI2DVD (still in beta phase), but be extremely cautious. It is well known that installing the AVI2DVD package can cause system instability. Anyway, I'm not sure it is easy to crop and compose with AVI2DVD.

VirtualDub and AVI2DVD are free.

Also, you will probably find more help if you post in another forum, as your problem is not related at all to DVD burning.