CCE Gray Borders

[jriker1]

I posted this in the CCE forum however did not receive a response. Was hoping someone here may have a clue on this:

I have the below avisynth script for a 2.35:1 AVI file. Set to 16:9 in CCE. Resulting File: The black border on the top and bottom looks more gray on my TV. On a 4:3 TV it's even worse. I have the black border at the top and bottom of the screen, then the border around the movie itself of an inch or so is gray and then the video. Why is the border coming out gray? Using CCE SP 2.70.02.01. Also tried CCE SP 2.67 with either luminosity. Also set CCE to DVD compliant and let it put the border in, but looked the same.

AVISource("...")
LanczosResize(720,448,2,0,636,272)
AddBorders(0,64,0,64)

Thanks in advance.

JR

[hoozdapimp]

why are you adding borders in the avisynth script? It sounds like you are trying to watch it on a 16:9 tv set, so you should encode as anamorphic 16:9 and not add borders.

[jriker1]

Thanks for the reply. Well, this is what everyone seems to be saying to do and FitCD says to do this also when I select PAL and Atmospheric. Besides that, if I do not provide the script shown here without the borders, the picture seems stretched for some reason. Not sure if this looks different once I burn it to DVD and play it there as opposed to software on my PC.

JR