Custom title screen resolution?

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opticreep@yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm trying to make a title screen (still menu) for an SVCD. According
> to the website www.vcdhelp.com, the resolution for SVCD "extras" can
> be as high as 704X480.

That's correct.

> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to follow the 4:3 aspect ratio of
> most TVs.

That's because the pixels in this format are not square. See
<http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/conversion/&gt; for more details.

> I've tried both 704X480 and 640X480, and on both instances
> the title screen doesn't properly fit into the TV screen.

Title not fitting the screen is a whole another problem called
"overscan". See, for example <http://scanline.ca/overscan/&gt;.

> I'm using NERO to make these SVCDs.

I'm not sure if Nero supports high-resolution VCD/SVCD stills (hopefully
it does!)

> What is the standard resolution for making menus in SVCDs?

704×480 or 480×480 for "NTSC" SVCDs. Both will fill up the entire
screen, the latter just has less resolution and differently shaped
pixels.

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znark