magicky
17th January 2008, 19:57
I'm quite new to DVD burning, and I'm not too knowledgable about how it all works, but I was hoping someone here would be able to explain to me why my TV crops the edges of the video on my homemade DVDs. I'm using Nero 8 Ultra.
I've been trying to burn video files (in avi format, if that helps), and I'm using Nero 8 to do so. I've checked the video options menu, and if gives me the different aspect ratios which I can choose to burn to (4:3, 16:9, and automatic are the options), and it says it burns it to an MPEG2 format. The original dimensions of the videos on my computer are 640x480...and when I import them into making a custom movie with Nero 8 Ultra, it says that the resolution is 4:3, and the dimensions are 704xSomething...
What I'd like to know is whether or not there's anything I can do, either in Nero, or to make some change to the video files themselves, to prevent them from being cropped on my TV screen when I play them in that dvd player. It's so strange...the computer plays them without cropping the edges.
I've heard that adding black borders to the section that gets cropped is a good trick, but I wouldn't know how to do that. Any help anyone can give me is much appreciated (and hopefully, explained in such a way that even a dummy like me can understand)...I apologize in advance for my lack of understanding with regard to the technical terms. Please regard me kindly.
Thank you.
I've been trying to burn video files (in avi format, if that helps), and I'm using Nero 8 to do so. I've checked the video options menu, and if gives me the different aspect ratios which I can choose to burn to (4:3, 16:9, and automatic are the options), and it says it burns it to an MPEG2 format. The original dimensions of the videos on my computer are 640x480...and when I import them into making a custom movie with Nero 8 Ultra, it says that the resolution is 4:3, and the dimensions are 704xSomething...
What I'd like to know is whether or not there's anything I can do, either in Nero, or to make some change to the video files themselves, to prevent them from being cropped on my TV screen when I play them in that dvd player. It's so strange...the computer plays them without cropping the edges.
I've heard that adding black borders to the section that gets cropped is a good trick, but I wouldn't know how to do that. Any help anyone can give me is much appreciated (and hopefully, explained in such a way that even a dummy like me can understand)...I apologize in advance for my lack of understanding with regard to the technical terms. Please regard me kindly.
Thank you.