Frameserving subtitled avi to dvd mpg with different res

[Ryuushi]

This might go a bit off topic, but please try and bear with me since I am slightly new to this. I recently learned how to add subtitles to files recorded with my digital camera and wanted to play around with making home dvd movies of them. So I converted the files to dvd mpg and authored them to be burnt onto a disc.

The avi res was 640x480 (needed to get to that size since subs on a smaller res don't show up so well) and the dvd changed it to 720x480

When I tried it initially, the subs were cut off and the picture was also cut off on either side. I tried again by recalculating for the overscan and that kinda worked but the image looked fuzzier. A friend recommended frameserving from virtualdub to tmpg so I can resize and filter the file in vdub and have tmpg do the conversion. So can anyone help me so I can convert this image properly and have it all show without being fuzzy?

I've tried looking this up in the guides, but it seems like so many different issues at once that I am not sure any specific guide handles it. There is frameserving, resolution filtering, subtitles, mpg conversion, and overscan to account for and it's very confusing...

[Matthew]

Sounds like you are adding subs to the avi and then resizing/converting.

Normally, for permanent subtitles you'd use an avisynth script, which will also resize and feed your video to TMPEGEnc, CCE, etc. The script would point to a text file containing the subs.

Another option is to use selectable subtitles, which can be turned off, but again you need subtitles in text format to begin.

So if you avi editing program permits exporting the subs to a text file, for addition later, I'd look into that.