How Do You Set Border to Black with Maestro
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Your 2.35:1 is really only just a 16:9 with black bars to and bottom. These black bars come from your encoder, not from Maestro. When arthoring with Maestro and you select 16:9 Letterbox format (as you should) it doesnt add anything to the borders, it only authors whats been loaded into it and does not add anu borders or change the pic in any way.
How are you getting the video into CCE? If you are using AVISynth then you can easily add black borders to fill to 576/480.
So what is the script then?
Below is what I use which is from DVD2SVCD. I did some looking and found that AVIsynth should default to black as I understand it. But what I get is light grey. Any help is appreciated.
[Settings]
XPos=0
YPos=0
UseDVDRip=0
UsevStrip=0
UseInternalRip=1
Save diskspace=0
vStrip Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\vStrip\vStrip.exe
vStrip Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
DVD2AVI Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe
DVD2AVI Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
iDCT=0
DVD2AVI Pause=0
WavConv=5
BitRate=9
tooLame Mode=0
Audio Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Autodetect Azid Gain=1
SubMux Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\WinSubMux\WinSubMux.exe
MPG2Dec DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll
InverseTelecine DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\InverseTelecine\Donald Graft\decomb.dll
SimpleResize DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
CCE Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
NoOfpasses=4
CCE Image Quality=17
CCE Anti noise value=2
CCE Anti noise=0
CBR=0
One Pass VBR=0
Multi Pass VBR=1
Dont Delete Files=1
Create VAF=1
QFactor=5
Linear quantizer scale=1
Zigzag scanning order=1
Pulldown Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe
Pulldown Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Use2Streams=0
Pri1Audio1=28
Pri1Audio2=-1
Pri2Audio1=-1
Pri2Audio2=-1
Sub1=-1
Sub2=-1
Sub3=-1
Sub4=-1
Sub5=-1
Sub6=-1
Sub7=-1
Sub8=-1
Azid Gain Offset=6
Rip subtitles=0
Subpictures Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie\subs
Min. Delay. Between Subtitles=100
SVCD subtitles=1
BeSweet Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe
MPEG51 Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MPEG5.1\pub_enc.exe
Permanent subtitles=0
PAL Y-Pos=-1
NTSC Y-Pos=-1
MinsHigh1=50
MinsHigh2=76
MinsHigh3=100
MinsHigh4=125
MinsHigh5=163
NumCd1=1
NumCd2=1
NumCd3=2
NumCd4=2
NumCd5=3
NumCd6=3
CDSize 1=740
CDSize 2=800
CDSize 3=740
CDSize 4=800
CDSize 5=740
CDSize 6=800
MaxBitrate=2530
MinBitrate=300
MaxAvg=2230
MinAvg=1600
Adjust Audio Bitrate=1
Use Min. Avg.=0
Force Film=0
bbMPEG Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe
bbMPEG Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Movie Offset=2
CDOverlap=2
I-Author Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Data Preparer=dvd2svcd
VCDImager Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDImager.exe
VCDXBuild Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe
Use I-Author=0
Use VCDImager=0
No images=0
Use VCDXBuild=1
Title Picture=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DefaultTitlepicture.bmp
Change CD Picture=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp
Length of Chapters=60
Use TitlePicture=1
Use ChangeCD Picture=1
Avisynth Bicubic b Value=0
Avisynth Bicubic c Value=0.75
SmartDeinterlace Mode=2
SmartDeinterlace Treshold=10
SmartDeinterlace Denoise=1
SmartDeinterlace Blend=0
SmartDeinterlace Fast=1
Edit Avisynth Script file=0
UseAVI2SVCD=0
UsePVA2SVCD=0
UseDVD2SVCD=1
PVA Executable=
PVA Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
UseCDOverlap=1
Wave Length Adjust Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\WLA\WLA.exe
FirstRun=0
MADPlay Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe
Use CDMage=0
CDMage Executable=
RunPerCDImage=0
RunPerCDImage Executable=
RunFinal=0
RunFinal Executable=
RunPerCDImage Params=
RunFinal Params=
bbMPEG videoDelay Adjustment=180
bbMPEG audioDelay Adjustment=180
bbMPEG audio1Delay Adjustment=180
Use MPEGAV=0
FixedChapters=0
DVDChapters=1
ForceIAuthorSupport=1
TMPGEnc Rate Control Mode=2
Subtitle DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Avisynth Subtitler.dll
BMP Loader DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Avisynth BMP Loader.dll
VFAPI Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VFAPI\Reader\VFAPIConv-EN.exe
ResizeMethod=2
Auto Intra DC=1
DC component precision=0
Avisynth Setup=BicubicResize
UseMPEG1=0
UseMPEG2=1
Convert to Canopus codec=0
Convert to Divx4=0
Use Frameselection=0
New Default Folder=0
DVD2SVCD Level=0
Eject DVD=0
Luminance Gain=0
Luminance Offset=0
Audio1Downsampling=1
Audio2Downsampling=1
Audio1BitRate=9
Audio2BitRate=9
Folder Structure Source=
Folder Structure Video=
Folder Structure Audio=
Folder Structure Muxed=
Folder Structure Subs=Subs
Intra=8,16,19,22,26,27,29,34,16,16,22,24,27,29,34,37,19,22,26,27,29,34,34,38,22,22,26,27,29,34,37,40,22,26,27,29,32,35,40,48,26,27,29,32,35,40,48,58,26,27,29,34,38,46,56,69,27,29,35,38,46,56,69,83
NonIntra=16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,20,21,22,23,25,26,27,28,21,22,23,24,26,27,28,30,22,23,24,26,27,28,30,31,23,24,25,27,28,30,31,33
Matrice Preset=
Use deafult Matrice=1
LFEDownmixLR6Ch=-3
LFEDownmixLFE6Ch=0
CenterDownmix6Ch=0
SurroundDownmix6Ch=0
DynamicCompression6Ch=1
StereoDownmixType6Ch=0
RearChannelFiltering6Ch=0
DialogNorm6Ch=0
LFEDownmixLR2Ch=-3
LFEDownmixLFE2Ch=0
CenterDownmix2Ch=-1
SurroundDownmix2Ch=-1
DynamicCompression2Ch=1
StereoDownmixType2Ch=0
RearChannelFiltering2Ch=0
DialogNorm2Ch=0
No Audio Conversion=0
Flip Vertival=0
Add ResampleAudio=1
Resize To=0
Use CCE=1
Use TMPGEnc=0
CCE Safe Mode=0
RoBa Multi Pass=0
RoBa Visibel=0
CCE Bias=20
CCE Field Order=2
Progressive=1
DVD Compliant=0
Restrict auto I frame insertion=0
Close all GOPs=0
Intra DC=2
M GOP=3
MN GOP=5
SEQ Header=1
Constrained Parameter Set=1
TMPGEnc Motion search precision=4
TMPGEnc Field Order=2
Frames pr spread=50
Spread=40
OffsetFixed CQ Value=80
Use fixed CQ Value=0
Output YUV data as Basic YCbCr not CCIR601=0
Use floating point DCT=1
No motion search for still picture part by half pixel=1
Soften block noise=0
Soften Intra=35
Soften NonIntra=35
TMPGEnc GOP I Pictures=1
TMPGEnc GOP P Pictures=4
TMPGEnc GOP B Pictures=3
TMPGEnc SEQ Headers=1
TMPGEnc Max frames in GOP=0
TMPGEnc Close GOPs=0
TMPGEnc Detect Scene Change=1
Enabled Padding=0
TMPGEnc VBVBuffer=0
SubOutputPalette0=clBlack
SubBlendPalette0=0
SubOutputPalette1=clWhite
SubBlendPalette1=15
SubOutputPalette2=$001E1E1E
SubBlendPalette2=15
SubOutputPalette3=clGray
SubBlendPalette3=15
Resize Subtitles=100
CVD subtitles=0
bbMPEG MPEG1=0
bbMPEG VCD=0
bbMPEG MPEG2=0
bbMPEG SVCD=1
bbMPEG DVD=0
bbMPEG VBR=1
bbMPEG Pad VCD=0
bbMPEG Write PEC=1
bbMPEG Add Scan Offsets=1
bbMPEG Align Sequence Headers=1
bbMPEG Use Private Stream 2=0
bbMPEG Computed Bitrate=1
bbMPEG TimeStamps=0
bbMPEG Pulldown=2
bbMPEG MuxRate=0
bbMPEG Pack Size=2324
bbMPEG Packets Pack=1
bbMPEG Video Buffer=230
bbMPEG Audio 1 Buffer=4
bbMPEG Audio 2 Buffer=4
PBCType=0
Use LastCD Picture=0
Use EntrySVD=0
Save XML=1
Save Movie Info=1
ProcessPriority=1
Automatic Shutdown=0
[AVISYNTH_BilinearResize]
0=BilinearResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
1=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
[AVISYNTH_SimpleResize]
0=LoadPlugin(!SimpleResize.dll)
1=SimpleResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
2=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
!SimpleResize.dll=C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
[AVISYNTH_BicubicResize]
0=BicubicResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight,^b_value,^c_value)
1=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
^b_value=0.0
^c_value=0.6
[AVISYNTH_InterlacedResize]
0=LoadPlugin(!SimpleResize.dll)
1=InterlacedResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
2=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
!SimpleResize.dll=C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
[Settings]
XPos=0
YPos=0
UseDVDRip=0
UsevStrip=0
UseInternalRip=1
Save diskspace=0
vStrip Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\vStrip\vStrip.exe
vStrip Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
DVD2AVI Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DVD2AVI\DVD2AVI.exe
DVD2AVI Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
iDCT=0
DVD2AVI Pause=0
WavConv=5
BitRate=9
tooLame Mode=0
Audio Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Autodetect Azid Gain=1
SubMux Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\WinSubMux\WinSubMux.exe
MPG2Dec DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MPEG2Dec\mpeg2dec.dll
InverseTelecine DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\InverseTelecine\Donald Graft\decomb.dll
SimpleResize DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
CCE Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
NoOfpasses=4
CCE Image Quality=17
CCE Anti noise value=2
CCE Anti noise=0
CBR=0
One Pass VBR=0
Multi Pass VBR=1
Dont Delete Files=1
Create VAF=1
QFactor=5
Linear quantizer scale=1
Zigzag scanning order=1
Pulldown Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\pulldown\pulldown.exe
Pulldown Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Use2Streams=0
Pri1Audio1=28
Pri1Audio2=-1
Pri2Audio1=-1
Pri2Audio2=-1
Sub1=-1
Sub2=-1
Sub3=-1
Sub4=-1
Sub5=-1
Sub6=-1
Sub7=-1
Sub8=-1
Azid Gain Offset=6
Rip subtitles=0
Subpictures Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie\subs
Min. Delay. Between Subtitles=100
SVCD subtitles=1
BeSweet Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe
MPEG51 Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MPEG5.1\pub_enc.exe
Permanent subtitles=0
PAL Y-Pos=-1
NTSC Y-Pos=-1
MinsHigh1=50
MinsHigh2=76
MinsHigh3=100
MinsHigh4=125
MinsHigh5=163
NumCd1=1
NumCd2=1
NumCd3=2
NumCd4=2
NumCd5=3
NumCd6=3
CDSize 1=740
CDSize 2=800
CDSize 3=740
CDSize 4=800
CDSize 5=740
CDSize 6=800
MaxBitrate=2530
MinBitrate=300
MaxAvg=2230
MinAvg=1600
Adjust Audio Bitrate=1
Use Min. Avg.=0
Force Film=0
bbMPEG Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\bbMPEG\RunbbMPEG.exe
bbMPEG Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Movie Offset=2
CDOverlap=2
I-Author Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
Data Preparer=dvd2svcd
VCDImager Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDImager.exe
VCDXBuild Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe
Use I-Author=0
Use VCDImager=0
No images=0
Use VCDXBuild=1
Title Picture=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DefaultTitlepicture.bmp
Change CD Picture=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\DefaultChangeCD.bmp
Length of Chapters=60
Use TitlePicture=1
Use ChangeCD Picture=1
Avisynth Bicubic b Value=0
Avisynth Bicubic c Value=0.75
SmartDeinterlace Mode=2
SmartDeinterlace Treshold=10
SmartDeinterlace Denoise=1
SmartDeinterlace Blend=0
SmartDeinterlace Fast=1
Edit Avisynth Script file=0
UseAVI2SVCD=0
UsePVA2SVCD=0
UseDVD2SVCD=1
PVA Executable=
PVA Folder=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Movie
UseCDOverlap=1
Wave Length Adjust Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\WLA\WLA.exe
FirstRun=0
MADPlay Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe
Use CDMage=0
CDMage Executable=
RunPerCDImage=0
RunPerCDImage Executable=
RunFinal=0
RunFinal Executable=
RunPerCDImage Params=
RunFinal Params=
bbMPEG videoDelay Adjustment=180
bbMPEG audioDelay Adjustment=180
bbMPEG audio1Delay Adjustment=180
Use MPEGAV=0
FixedChapters=0
DVDChapters=1
ForceIAuthorSupport=1
TMPGEnc Rate Control Mode=2
Subtitle DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Avisynth Subtitler.dll
BMP Loader DLL=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\Avisynth BMP Loader.dll
VFAPI Executable=C:\Programmer\DVD2SVCD\VFAPI\Reader\VFAPIConv-EN.exe
ResizeMethod=2
Auto Intra DC=1
DC component precision=0
Avisynth Setup=BicubicResize
UseMPEG1=0
UseMPEG2=1
Convert to Canopus codec=0
Convert to Divx4=0
Use Frameselection=0
New Default Folder=0
DVD2SVCD Level=0
Eject DVD=0
Luminance Gain=0
Luminance Offset=0
Audio1Downsampling=1
Audio2Downsampling=1
Audio1BitRate=9
Audio2BitRate=9
Folder Structure Source=
Folder Structure Video=
Folder Structure Audio=
Folder Structure Muxed=
Folder Structure Subs=Subs
Intra=8,16,19,22,26,27,29,34,16,16,22,24,27,29,34,37,19,22,26,27,29,34,34,38,22,22,26,27,29,34,37,40,22,26,27,29,32,35,40,48,26,27,29,32,35,40,48,58,26,27,29,34,38,46,56,69,27,29,35,38,46,56,69,83
NonIntra=16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,20,21,22,23,25,26,27,28,21,22,23,24,26,27,28,30,22,23,24,26,27,28,30,31,23,24,25,27,28,30,31,33
Matrice Preset=
Use deafult Matrice=1
LFEDownmixLR6Ch=-3
LFEDownmixLFE6Ch=0
CenterDownmix6Ch=0
SurroundDownmix6Ch=0
DynamicCompression6Ch=1
StereoDownmixType6Ch=0
RearChannelFiltering6Ch=0
DialogNorm6Ch=0
LFEDownmixLR2Ch=-3
LFEDownmixLFE2Ch=0
CenterDownmix2Ch=-1
SurroundDownmix2Ch=-1
DynamicCompression2Ch=1
StereoDownmixType2Ch=0
RearChannelFiltering2Ch=0
DialogNorm2Ch=0
No Audio Conversion=0
Flip Vertival=0
Add ResampleAudio=1
Resize To=0
Use CCE=1
Use TMPGEnc=0
CCE Safe Mode=0
RoBa Multi Pass=0
RoBa Visibel=0
CCE Bias=20
CCE Field Order=2
Progressive=1
DVD Compliant=0
Restrict auto I frame insertion=0
Close all GOPs=0
Intra DC=2
M GOP=3
MN GOP=5
SEQ Header=1
Constrained Parameter Set=1
TMPGEnc Motion search precision=4
TMPGEnc Field Order=2
Frames pr spread=50
Spread=40
OffsetFixed CQ Value=80
Use fixed CQ Value=0
Output YUV data as Basic YCbCr not CCIR601=0
Use floating point DCT=1
No motion search for still picture part by half pixel=1
Soften block noise=0
Soften Intra=35
Soften NonIntra=35
TMPGEnc GOP I Pictures=1
TMPGEnc GOP P Pictures=4
TMPGEnc GOP B Pictures=3
TMPGEnc SEQ Headers=1
TMPGEnc Max frames in GOP=0
TMPGEnc Close GOPs=0
TMPGEnc Detect Scene Change=1
Enabled Padding=0
TMPGEnc VBVBuffer=0
SubOutputPalette0=clBlack
SubBlendPalette0=0
SubOutputPalette1=clWhite
SubBlendPalette1=15
SubOutputPalette2=$001E1E1E
SubBlendPalette2=15
SubOutputPalette3=clGray
SubBlendPalette3=15
Resize Subtitles=100
CVD subtitles=0
bbMPEG MPEG1=0
bbMPEG VCD=0
bbMPEG MPEG2=0
bbMPEG SVCD=1
bbMPEG DVD=0
bbMPEG VBR=1
bbMPEG Pad VCD=0
bbMPEG Write PEC=1
bbMPEG Add Scan Offsets=1
bbMPEG Align Sequence Headers=1
bbMPEG Use Private Stream 2=0
bbMPEG Computed Bitrate=1
bbMPEG TimeStamps=0
bbMPEG Pulldown=2
bbMPEG MuxRate=0
bbMPEG Pack Size=2324
bbMPEG Packets Pack=1
bbMPEG Video Buffer=230
bbMPEG Audio 1 Buffer=4
bbMPEG Audio 2 Buffer=4
PBCType=0
Use LastCD Picture=0
Use EntrySVD=0
Save XML=1
Save Movie Info=1
ProcessPriority=1
Automatic Shutdown=0
[AVISYNTH_BilinearResize]
0=BilinearResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
1=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
[AVISYNTH_SimpleResize]
0=LoadPlugin(!SimpleResize.dll)
1=SimpleResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
2=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
!SimpleResize.dll=C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
[AVISYNTH_BicubicResize]
0=BicubicResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight,^b_value,^c_value)
1=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
^b_value=0.0
^c_value=0.6
[AVISYNTH_InterlacedResize]
0=LoadPlugin(!SimpleResize.dll)
1=InterlacedResize(^TargetWidth,^TargetHeight)
2=AddBorders(0,^BorderTop,0,^BorderBottom)
!SimpleResize.dll=C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\SimpleResize\SimpleResize.dll
Maybe you also have your Contrast up to high on your TV, that will always give grey borders.