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[nuspieds]

Hello,

When I use the "Preview" function to preview my DVD and test out the menus, it's fine.  But when I burn to DVD and then take that DVD to view on my TV, the images are severely chopped off.  In other words, I'm not seeing the full image like I did in the preview.

As an example, on my menus, I have some standard text that I place at the top of the menu background and by the time I watch the DVD on my TV, I can't even see the text!  Then there's the button links:  If they are too far to border of the images (same is true for text, actually), they definitely get chopped.

Again, previewing on the computer works 100% and I clearly see everything, without any cropping/loss of picture data.  The problem does not occur for .MPG movies, only image files that I've made into a slideshow movie or menus for which I've changed the background image.

I know this has something to do with the resolution of my images and/or TV.  That is, I have a JVC TV that's about 10 years old and it is on that TV that I get the worst output with major loss of portions of picture images.  When I take that same DVD and play it on my plasma, I get fewer loss of data.  As an example, where I was losing the text at the top of the menu, on my plasma, I can see the text all the time.  But the button links would still be chopped--again, not as bad, but still chopped.

My pictures are taken with the 5 megapixel resolution, so they are all about 2M in size.

I'm totally confused because when I watch commercial DVDs on my JVC TV, they are the same as when I watch them on my plasma:  There's no chopping/loss of portions of images.

Are there burning options or something I can do to fix this issue?

Thanks!

[Jim_Hardin]

All DVD Movie making software provides for a "TV Safe Zone".

By keeping everything within this area, they will show up on all of the various TV's found in the consumer jungle…

Normal MyDVD View:



TV Safe Zone turned on:

[nuspieds]

Ahhhh...thank you ever so much!

I've got my work cut out for me now, though, to fix those 13 menus I created!  

[grandpabruce]

Ahhhh...thank you ever so much!

I've got my work cut out for me now, though, to fix those 13 menus I created!  

Keep your titles short, making sure that the border doesn't overlap the one next to it, or you will get a warning from the software telling you that you have overlapping menus.