This is also quite useful for converting AMVs to DVDs for watching on a TV from a standard DVD player, especially ones that feature subtitles, like
Morning Honkation.
Here's my quick and dirty way of doing this in TMPGEnc:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... 9&start=15
This may also be useful:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=62841
As for using Nero to do this, I'm not sure it can add borders to a video. You could do this through VirtualDubMod or even better, use AviSynth.
The more elegant solution is to do this through AviSynth:
DirectShowSource("C:\PATH\VIDEO.AVI")
BilinearResize(640,432)
AddBorders(40,24,40,24)
Then use the AVS script directly, or make a fake AVI and load that into Nero.
To do this through VDM, load your video file, select
Full processing mode from the
Video menu. Then go to
Video >
Filters... and click the
Add... button. Select the
resize filter and click
OK. On the
Filter: resize dialog use these settings:
New width: 640
New height: 432 (436 if you prefer living on the edge)
Filter mode: (this depends on whether you resize up or down)
Check the
Expand frame and letterbox image option, and input these parameters:
Frame width: 720
Frame height: 480
Fill color: Black (this should be the default)
Click
OK. Now do whatever you need to do (frameserve, convert, etc.).
* Disclaimer: yes, I realize that the resizing and border widths aren't the best for achieving the most efficient MPEG-2 encodes, but it's the most balanced parameters I could come up with.