DVDMaestro Difficulty

[ormejaco]

Hello all. I'm new to the DVD production end of video, so please use small words so I can understand. I've been using DVDMaestro, and everything's been working great. The only problem is this: When I play my newly-burned DVD in a player (I've tested 2 different players) the menus and video are cropped. It's like my TV took the picture and zoomed in about 8% on all sides.
What's also interesting is that when I play the DVD on the same DVD player hooked into my computer (using VirtualDub to watch), the problem doesn't occur and I can see the whole picture. So, is there any way I can get my TV to play the DVD normally? (For a solution, I'd like to fix it in DVDMaestro, but I'll settle for a TV fix.)

Thank you very much.

[BJ_M]

you have to fix it in your encoding/editing .. this is normal for all TV 's (except some broadcast monitors with underscan) , pc and video projectors do not do this (plasma do though varies brand by brand) ..

you need to have a 10% black border around your picture

[ormejaco]

Thanks. OK. Are there any good ways to do that in TmpGENC? I know I can do it in premiere, but my computer's under 1Ghz . So I'd really like to make it simpler.

Thanks again.

[ormejaco]

Aha! All right, I solved it. For those who want to know, I did some fiddling in Premiere, DVDMaestro and Photoshop to find out that I needed my measurements to be 92% of the original clip. So, in TmpGENC, I used the advanced options and chose the aspect ratio to be "Center Custom Size." From there, I just multipliled my original measurements (720x480) by .92, and put in that custom size. That gives my movie the black buffer zone it needs to be encoded. Thanks for your help!

[Vejita-sama]

Well I'm glad that worked for you (you must still have a 720x480 video stream thou, because the DVD standard only supports 720x480, 352x480, and 352x240 and Maestro will not import streams that are no at these resolutions).

The real problem (as stated above) is TV overscan. Standard TVs overscan cutting off the edges of the video. Broadcast studios take this into effect. Many editing/authoring software will display NTSC or TV safe borders (eg. DVD Menu studio or Maestro's menu button screen). If your stick to the tv safe area you're normally ok.

[ormejaco]

Thanks. Yeah, I've been keeping it at 720x480. And Maestro's menu borders were pretty kind. Thanks again for your help.