Vista DVD Maker - Cut off Picture on TV

[Guest]

Okay, So basically I created my first DVD with this program, but here is my
problem.

I played back the DVD using Windows Media Player - The fancy thing (Looks so
cool like a PSP) and the settings are fine, nothing wrong. Well I took the
DVD and placed it into my DVD player, (Magnavox DVD/CD player MWD 200F) and
for some odd reason some of the bottom and Top of the Picture has been cut
off a bit. The subtitles that come on the Videos are cut too. The TV set is a
Orion 23" screen. My Computer runs a Acer 19" Viewable. Is there something
wrong or did I just do a mistake. Is there anyway to fix it?

Thanks Ahead of Time,

Aeon

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Did you select the correct Aspect Ratio during Windows DVD Maker wizard?

 

[Guest]

Yes - I live in the USA and the TVs here are spec-ed to NTSC not PAL.... or
did I get that wrong?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I am not sure to be honest you. You should post this in the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video for more appropriate
answers relating to your problem.

For help and answers with Vistas multimedia features, here is a good site to
check out:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/128/Vistas-DVD-Maker-Focus-on-Style.aspx

 

[John Inzer]

Okay, So basically I created my first DVD with this program, but here
is my problem.

I played back the DVD using Windows Media Player - The fancy thing
(Looks so cool like a PSP) and the settings are fine, nothing wrong.
Well I took the DVD and placed it into my DVD player, (Magnavox
DVD/CD player MWD 200F) and for some odd reason some of the bottom
and Top of the Picture has been cut off a bit. The subtitles that
come on the Videos are cut too. The TV set is a Orion 23" screen. My
Computer runs a Acer 19" Viewable. Is there something wrong or did I
just do a mistake. Is there anyway to fix it?

Thanks Ahead of Time,

Aeon

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Sounds like the Magnavox may be a different
aspect ratio than the Acer.

IOW...if the Magnavox is more of a widescreen
format than the Acer...and if the movie is viewed
full screen...some cropping would occur at the top
and bottom of the screen.

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[Adam Albright]

Okay, So basically I created my first DVD with this program, but here is my
problem.

I played back the DVD using Windows Media Player - The fancy thing (Looks so
cool like a PSP) and the settings are fine, nothing wrong. Well I took the
DVD and placed it into my DVD player, (Magnavox DVD/CD player MWD 200F) and
for some odd reason some of the bottom and Top of the Picture has been cut
off a bit. The subtitles that come on the Videos are cut too. The TV set is a
Orion 23" screen. My Computer runs a Acer 19" Viewable. Is there something
wrong or did I just do a mistake. Is there anyway to fix it?

Thanks Ahead of Time,

Aeon

Fairly common. The issue isn't Aspect Ratio, rather something called
safe areas. Each television tends to stretch the picture slightly
different even if properly calibrated. The result is anything close to
the boundaries of the screen edge can get cut off due to how much the
television 'blooms' the picture. If or not this happens depends on
which television you are viewing your DVD on. So this is another one
of those problems some people will see, others won't.

Yes, a simple fix, not surprised Microsoft is too dumb to include it
in Movie Maker, but remember it is mainly a toy.

Professional grade Video Editors and DVD Authoring software often have
a feature called Safe Areas. It really is nothing more than a pair of
two borders that surround the preview screen slightly inside the
perimeter. You can switch this on and off and it doesn't show on the
finished video. It is just there to guide you when authoring.

The outer border is for content, the inner for titles.

The idea is simple, keep all your content and titling within the
borders and you avoid the problem of something getting cut off on some
televisions. Don't really need the feature, just don't put anything
important within roughly 10% of the edge and you'll be fine.

This "problem" more an annoyance actually has a name. It's called
overscan and goes back to the early days of television.

The reason you don't see the same problem when viewing on a computer
monitor is most applications show the 'raw' image which often means it
will include the over scan area. See below web site which describes
all of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan

If you click on both Title Safe and Action Safe on this link you'll
see what I'm referring to.