I've been using TMPGEnc to convert my AVIs into VCD compatable MPGs and for some reason, once put onto a VCD, I end up with some of the picture from all sides cut off. This is especially bothersome when the video has subtitles, which most of mine do, because you end up only seeing the upper half of the letters! When I play the mpg on the comp, I can see the whole thing, so I can't figure out why I'm losing some of it in the burning process. Am I missing something? I've tried changing "Video arrange method" around, but I end up with the same result or I end up with some of the picture cut off in the mpg itself, before I even burn it. I've used Ulead DVD Movie Factory, Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2, and Nero to burn VCDs and all have given me the same result. Does anyone else experience this problem? Any help would be much appreciated!! Thank you.

I do this every day. follow the directions on this page.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

This is caused by the TV overscan. The TV zooms into the picture and this will cause some of the picture to be outside the visual area on the TV screen. The reason for this is that TV screens are not perfect in aligning the picture and by showing a smaller part of the picture there will be no picture edges visible.

This is a normal behaviour of the TV. What you can do is resizing the picture to a smaller resolution and add black borders around it (like letterboxing). I normally do this with avisynth and create the script with FitCD.

Alternatively you can do this within TMPGenc by using clip frame and arrange setting center custom size.

Check this thread:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=171661

But you can also just place your subtitles with more margins to the bottom and the sides of the picture when you encode to VCD.

To fix this in Tmpgenc go to "Video Arange Method" and choose "Center(Custom Size)" and Put in 324+220 for NTSC and try 324+265 for Pal..This will keep the aspect ratio and compensate for overscan....Cheers