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[vifferman]

I'm not sure if I've got this in the right forum, so my apologies if it's in the wrong place.

I created my first Roxio production a couple of days ago, but because I finished it late at night, I didn't have time to review the video. It consists of several slideshows of photos and video clips, each of which is a chapter in my production, and each of which was imported into Videowave. I produced each as an MPEG, using the "Better quality" setting, as  for some as yet undiagnosed reason the "Best Quality" setting produced a video with no backing soundtrack. The productions were then burned to disk using MyDVD.

Last night, I was proudly showing the finished video disk to my wife. When we watched it I realised that the edges of each photo in the slideshow were missing (i.e, each frame was cropped). It's like it's zoomed in so the edges are off the screen. I tried all the TV settings but the result was the same (or worse). It probably wouldn't matter much (my wife thought it was OK), but many of the photos have captions at the bottom explaingin what/where they are. Most ofthese were carefull placed near the edge so as to not obscure the picture, and most are either completely or partially off the edge of the screen now, so they're unreadable. It means all the hard work I did editing the pictures, finding out where some of the are on Google Earth is essentially for naught.

Any idea what would be causing this? I had a quick look in the settings late last night and couldn't find anything. The other two disks I'd previously produced using other products do not have this problem, so it's just something in Videowave or MyDVD.

Thanx in advance for any help you can provide.

- Ian

[myguggi]

I'm not sure if I've got this in the right forum, so my apologies if it's in the wrong place.

I created my first Roxio production a couple of days ago, but because I finished it late at night, I didn't have time to review the video. It consists of several slideshows of photos and video clips, each of which is a chapter in my production, and each of which was imported into Videowave. I produced each as an MPEG, using the "Better quality" setting, as  for some as yet undiagnosed reason the "Best Quality" setting produced a video with no backing soundtrack. The productions were then burned to disk using MyDVD.

Last night, I was proudly showing the finished video disk to my wife. When we watched it I realised that the edges of each photo in the slideshow were missing (i.e, each frame was cropped). It's like it's zoomed in so the edges are off the screen. I tried all the TV settings but the result was the same (or worse). It probably wouldn't matter much (my wife thought it was OK), but many of the photos have captions at the bottom explaingin what/where they are. Most ofthese were carefull placed near the edge so as to not obscure the picture, and most are either completely or partially off the edge of the screen now, so they're unreadable. It means all the hard work I did editing the pictures, finding out where some of the are on Google Earth is essentially for naught.

Any idea what would be causing this? I had a quick look in the settings late last night and couldn't find anything. The other two disks I'd previously produced using other products do not have this problem, so it's just something in Videowave or MyDVD.

Thanx in advance for any help you can provide.

- Ian

What you are seeing is normal and is referred to as TV overscan.

Here is a link to a thread that discusses the issue and how to solve it

[vifferman]

Huh... I saw that in Roxio about the "TV safe zone", and because I'd had no problems with the other software I used, figured it applied only to crappy old TVs, or whatever.
Anyway - thanks very much for your help. I only skimmed through the thread you linked to, but I guess from what I read this means I have to redo the 7 video files I have on that disk. Joy....

[ggrussell]

If you need to start over, best to begin in Videowave.  You can turn on the 'TV safe' zone soyou know where to add the text.  Even the new HDTVs have a small overscan.