Left side of picture is cut off on a DVD player, but not on the computer.

[celtic_druid]

Simply pad the video with black borders, so that they get cut off instead of the picture and like I said if you want to know exactly how much is being cut off, try the above attachment.

 

[c_wag03]

What's a good editing program that would allow me to pad the video with black bars like that? Video Studio 7 doesn't have options anywhere near that advanced.

 

[celtic_druid]

AVISynth. Resize down using say lanczos resize and then use addborders() to pad. May also be possible to do something about it as you capture.

Would be something like:
mpeg2source("whatever.d2v")
lanczosresize(704,560)
AddBorders(8,8,8,8)