FoT & A-W

First, I want to say most of all that the Sailor Stars subs are incredible. The quality is unmatched, and as a longtime Sailor Moon fan, I am happy to finally be collecting these in a quality that matches (and in some cases surpasses) that of the DVD releases by ADV and Pioneer. Please keep up the good work--I look forward to the rest of the series.

My issue is trying to play the episodes back through to a television (whether hooking up my computer to my TV and running VLC, or burning to a DVD)--the subs are butt up against or sometimes cut off by the bottom and top of my screen (as televisions will cut off the border of the full video image). I placed an image cap from one of your episodes in DVD Studio Pro for Mac, and took and image cap of that here:



The outermost guide shows what point around the whole image is actually cut off on the TV screen (part of the opening "karaoke" is actually cut off the picture when run through a TV). The innermost guide is the "text-safe" border, where most broadcasts will place text so that it will not be too close to the edge of a TV screen. In all cases, the subs from the episodes are below the Japanese text shown in raw video in the opening (riding on the text safe guide).

I'm not sure how many of your viewers end up watching these on standard televisions these days, but if this issue were fixed in your Version 2 and future releases, the option would always be there.

Hope this crit helps!

--Maikeru

Yes, unfortunately, overscan is an issue that everyone with older TV sets has to deal with when using video out. Windows users are lucky enough to have access to Zoom Player for TV-Out, which allows you to free-zoom the image in or out 1% at a time until it fits your TV.

I am not sure how TV out works on a Mac, but I know on most Windows setups, your video adapter will have special settings for TV-out including a feature that lets your size up or size down the entire display until it all shows on your TV. Some adapters, however, still don't work right after doing this since the video overlay has its own settings (In Windows, usually located in the registry, editable for the very anal.)

My other reccomendation, unfortunately, also doesn't help you, because I don't think AviSynth is available for Mac. You can use AviSynth to add borders around the video.

In any case, it's a very complex issue.