Right,

I have ripped SVCD to HD. It's a 480x480 resolution movie. I've seperated the vid from the audio. I've re-encoded the audio to make it DVD compliant. I then re encoded the video stream to Mpeg 2 720x576 25 fps in order to make it compliant with UK DVD and spruceup. So finally Spruceup accepts my video stream and all's well . So far everything conforms to UK PAL DVD standards. I've done a nice job of the menus + chapters and generally taken my time to make it right. However (theres always an however) the video is centered in the screen with a black border on all 4 sides. I dont mind top + bottom like a widescreen movie but at the sides ?? why for heavens sake? When I used TMPGenc to in The Video Arrange section I kept the default Full Screen (Keep aspect ratio), I guess this was my problem so which setting should I have used? I'm guessing No Margin (keep aspect ratio). Though I'm again guessing this is going to leave me with a pan + scan film where as I would like to keep it widescreen. There are so many options and so many things to go wrong with this encoding lark. It's taken me the best part of the weekend to get this far. I've looked at the tutorials and decided they are crap so i'm going it alone here.

If anyone else uses this method what have you had success with?

Cheers

Dan