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[lindaleemarie]

All panels are cut off on the outside edge when running my DVD movies on a TV DVD player.  However, the movie is perfect on the computer screen.  Am I doing something wrong????

Does anyone have any suggestions on the fix?   I am a first time user of Roxie Easy Media Creater 7 and using the DVD Builder function.

[Merv]

lindaleemarie, on Jun 16 2006, 09:59 AM, said:

All panels are cut off on the outside edge when running my DVD movies on a TV DVD player.  However, the movie is perfect on the computer screen.  Am I doing something wrong????

Does anyone have any suggestions on the fix?   I am a first time user of Roxie Easy Media Creater 7 and using the DVD Builder function.

What you are experiencing is TV overscan and it is normal.  Except for some recent plasma TVs, all TVs cut off the edges of pictures/video.  I do not understand all the technical aspects of it, but I just know it happens.

Here are two things you can do to compensate:

1.  Insert a color panel in Videowave and then insert the picture on the overlay track.  Reduce the size enough to compensate for the overscan.  This may be time consuming if you have numerous pictures that you need to do this with.

2.  Use a picture cropping utility such as Image Cropper to crop your pictures to a TV safe size.  You can do that in batch for numerous pictures and add a color border to each if you like.

[vid2man97]

Computer monitors have square pixels.  TVs have rectangular pixels.  When a picture is shown on the TV, the image "stretches" because of those wider pixels.  As a result, your image is cropped.

smervine is right to suggest that you make sure your images are "TV-safe".  If you don't want to lose any of the picture, make sure your images are not far off from 640X480.  You can also turn on the "show safe are for TV" grid.  You'll see for sure what will or will not be lost and can decide then and there if you need to alter your pictures.