Inbedded subtitles cut off on viewing...

[LordDarcia]

I have .avi s with subtitles build into them, when I go to convert them to dvd and watch them, the subtitles are cut off at the sides and on occation from the bottem, how can I fix this?

[celtic_druid]

Sounds like overscan. You would need to pad the video with a black border so that it instead of the subtitles gets cut off.

[LordDarcia]

Alright...

How do I do that? You see, I downloaded them like that... And I'm very new to video editing...

[anonymez]

just so we're clear, the subs are also cut off when you play the original avi on your PC?

[LordDarcia]

No they are not cut off on my pc, only when I play them on my dvd player.

[celtic_druid]

Like I said; overscan. Fansub groups don't care about overscan, so they don't keep their subs to a safe area. Guess you could always follow their advice which would be to buy a new TV. Otherwise you need to pad as I suggested. As to how. You never said how you were converting.

[LordDarcia]

I convert them using a program called DVDSanta. Could someone plz help me? I really don't know how to bad video... I don't even know what it means. >< I would very much appricate it if someone can help me out. ^^

[pale2hall]

Yeah, help him out guys!

(Same Prob)

[celtic_druid]

Well I've never used DVDSanta so I wouldn't know how to pad video in it or even if it can. I can tell you that I wouldn't use AfterEffects though. Check out FitCD it creates AVISynth scripts for resizing taking overscan into account.

[pale2hall]

what do you do in it to pad the video?