TV chops off stuff?

[nwg]

AVI2BMP

[drfsupercenter]

I would prefer the VirtualDub way, if someone can help me.

Any insight on this?

[celtic_druid]

AVISynth would be the best way since you are planing on converting to DVD anyway.
video = avisource("whatever.avi")
part1 = trim(video,0,500)
part2 = trim(video,501,900)
part1 = lanczosresize(688,448)
part1 = AddBorders(part1, 16, 16, 16, 16, $FFFFFF)
return part1+part2

etc.

Then just convert your script.

[drfsupercenter]

Hmm, but would this do the entire video or just parts?

"Script error: Invalid arguments to function "lanczosresize"

Sorry, that didn't work. Any other suggestions?

[celtic_druid]

Errr, should be part1 = lanczosresize(part1,688,448). That's the problem with writing a script on the fly like that. You aren't going to be able to just cut and paste either. For instance I also just made up the trim points. You need to split the movie up according to sections that you do/don't want borders added.
So part1 = borders, part2 = no borders, part3 = borders, etc. Also you might not want 16 pixels of border.

[drfsupercenter]

Well, I am happy to say that I successfully fixed this problem. What I did, was make a new presentation with the words smaller, then just fix the frame count, since the timing was off. Now the number of frames match, I put the music in, and it works great!

Thanks for attempting to help anyway! Now that I have the file, authoring it to a DVD is the next step, I used DivX2DVD to get the title written, now to make menus and such.