Problem with TV safe zone

[MorteTheSkull]

Basically, maybe I'm missing something here, but my video files don't fit into the TV safe zone. They take up the full screen in Roxio. Normally this hasn't really been an issue, since the amount lost is insignificant, but in this case there's a problem because I have subtitles being cut off.

Is there some way to set it so the video is showing only within the safe zone?

[gi7omy]

Just on a sort of hysterical historical note - the reason for overscan dates back to the days when CRTs were circular (which is why they're measured diagonally because they were quoted as the diameter).

 

What happened was that the masking used for the 4:3 aspect ratio blanked off the sides, top and bottom and, with the curved face of the tube, if you set the corners of the picture to the mask edge, you wound up with gaps in the centre of the edges, so they deliberately set the overscan to remove those.

 

With the modern flat(tish), square(ish) tubes, it's not as necessary - but it's still used because that's what the system is designed to handle

[sknis]

Basically, maybe I'm missing something here, but my video files don't fit into the TV safe zone. They take up the full screen in Roxio. Normally this hasn't really been an issue, since the amount lost is insignificant, but in this case there's a problem because I have subtitles being cut off.

Is there some way to set it so the video is showing only within the safe zone?

The easiest way to to put it as an overlay to a color panel of equal length. You have the ability to re-size the overlay.

[MorteTheSkull]

The easiest way to to put it as an overlay to a color panel of equal length. You have the ability to re-size the overlay.

err, and how exactly would I go about doing that?

edit: Ah, figured it out

That's pretty handy to be able to do, thanks.

 

...would be a bit handier if there was just a function where it would naturally fit movies to the safe zone, though...lol

[sknis]

err, and how exactly would I go about doing that?

edit: Ah, figured it out

That's pretty handy to be able to do, thanks.

 

...would be a bit handier if there was just a function where it would naturally fit movies to the safe zone, though...lol

 

"Yes but" (sorry about that infamous phrase) then it would need two different options -- one for CRT type and one for the newer types (not necessarily HDTV). I think that the TV safe zone is for about an 15 percent reduction but newer TVs have less over-scan and may use something higher - approaching your computer monitor -- ooops that's three options.