bmwracer wrote:
Maybe I'll have to look into that... But does it allow compensation for overscan?
If not, the program won't do me any good.
Erm... not sure. There's not a lot of settings to play with. But the only time i've had a problem with it was on a hardsubbed movie where the bottom of the picture appears to have been cut off a bit. That would be overscan, ne?
Anime Dad wrote:Erm... not sure. There's not a lot of settings to play with. But the only time i've had a problem with it was on a hardsubbed movie where the bottom of the picture appears to have been cut off a bit. That would be overscan, ne?
Possibly.
But it's more like TVs are built to "zoom" the image a tiny little bit so you don't see the actual borders of the video image... Thus some of the image is cropped off at the top, bottom, and sides... And it varies from TV to TV. :sweat:
Some DVD producers (e.g., Criterion) windowbox/picturebox the image so that it's a tiny bit smaller and has a black border around the image to offset the overscan, allowing you to see the entire image with the cropping. :)
ConvertXtoDVD doesn't have a setting to compensate for overscan, but I've found that authoring a DVD as 16:9 widescreen instead of 4:3 or Auto setting helps most times, but not always.
android_04 wrote:ConvertXtoDVD doesn't have a setting to compensate for overscan, but I've found that authoring a DVD as 16:9 widescreen instead of 4:3 or Auto setting helps most times, but not always.
I've tried doing that with TMPGEnc, but it screws up the aspect ratio of the resulting output... ONLY if I try to compensate for overscan, otherwise it works correctly...
Oh, after some inquiries on VideoHelp.com, it turns out that you can't have your cake and eat it, too: If you want to compensate for overscan, then black bars around the video image frame are unavoidable... And if you don't wnt black bars, then overscan is unavoidable.
Now the question is, which is less desirable, overscan or black bars? :sweat:
I would say black bars are better. Not everything is gonna be 16:9, is it?
As for ConvertX: It works well for me, and I can't be bothered with too many settings... If I could find something that was somewhere in between ConvertX and TMpegEnc, that was logical to use, I would definitely use it. Everything else i've tried has either been too complex or too simple. I guess ConvertX falls on the too simple side, but it's so quick and easy and has a good encoding engine, unlike NeroVision Express.
What i'm doing mostly, and I think beem is the same, is authoring DVD's from downloaded movies and drama eps. Some would be DVD rips, some TV rips (depends on the source), usually .avi files. Beem has the added step of hardsubbing, whereas I normally use ConvertX to add softsubs - unless the original file is already hardsubbed. Can be 4:3 or 16:9, once again depending on the source.
Anime Dad wrote:What i'm doing mostly, and I think beem is the same, is authoring DVD's from downloaded movies and drama eps. Some would be DVD rips, some TV rips (depends on the source), usually .avi files. Beem has the added step of hardsubbing, whereas I normally use ConvertX to add softsubs - unless the original file is already hardsubbed. Can be 4:3 or 16:9, once again depending on the source.
A-Dad speaketh the truth.
The driving force for all of this is that I/we like watching our dramas on a real TV and hooked up to our sound systems (as in the case of Nodame and Swing Girls)... Parked in front of a piddly 19" monitor with two PC speakers is hardly a viewing experience. :beaten:
I fired up the copy of the Casshern movie I authored the other day: I only saw the first few minutes, to check out the authoring, but the sound was awesome through my home theatre system!
hmm, how about... a cheap divx player? :sweat: saves you tons of time burning disks.
I use my xbox1 to stream all my movies (through network cable), for real the Xbox1 was THE perfect mediacenter, it can play virtually any format even those pesky quicktime and realmedia files.
well till H264 codec appeared: the xbox cpu isn't fast enough anymore to encode on the fly HD stuff. But for that I just use my PC to play, I got it hooked up to my 32" LCD TV (DVI-HDMI). Don't like to use that when I watch more than 1 episode: because I need to run up and down to my PC if I wanted to watch something else, or pause etc. Yeah, I really prefer streaming. damn you H264 :beaten:
Really? over here you can buy one for as cheap as $50-100. Still I always advise people to buy an Xbox instead.
I understand though that people prefer to convert avi to dvd, but in my case, or when you're big downloader it wouldn't be too economical to convert everything before watching :sweat:
when you talk Jdramas, I think I've collected around 100 shows in the last 6 years. That's like 150dvdrs (in avi format) Imagine I'd need to convert all of that, it would take like hmm, yeah probably 350dvds or more :beaten:
Terryb wrote:hmm, how about... a cheap divx player? :sweat: saves you tons of time burning disks.
I have a DivX player, but I like the chapter functions and stuff that DVDs offer...
I use my xbox1 to stream all my movies (through network cable), for real the Xbox1 was THE perfect mediacenter, it can play virtually any format even those pesky quicktime and realmedia files.
I don't game, so I don't need an XBox, PS2/3, or a Wii.