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  1. Hi, how are you. I have had this problem for over couple months now.. i have tried a whole bunch of programs to do this but i have same failure in all of them

    i got myself a digital video camera.... i edited it and rdy to burn. my fav program is Sonic Foundry dvd architect 1.0

    anyway when i burn it.. it plays absolutly perfect on my Computer. Then when i put it into my dvd player and play it on my tv, the picture is cut by about 10-15% from all 4 corners. Making the picture not look so good cause its like zooming in and cutting a lot of picture!

    again i have tried many authorising software, burned it and got same result. i have pioneer c503, and have tried it on some other DVD player and its same

    I am doing this in NTSC and have my resolution of the picture 720x480

    Anyone knows how i can fix it.. Cause i have hours and hours of videos that I need to burn to DVD's now for the memories. But its cutting way 2 much off the screen and I need to know how to fix this

    Any help would really be appriciated. Thanks a lot!
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  2. contrarian rallynavvie's Avatar
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    Sounds like the video stream is going beyond the TV safe area. Most encoders take care of this somehow so that usually you only have to obey the safe areas when creating menus and such. I'm not familiar with your DVD author so perhaps someone who knows more about it will say something. IIRC 740x480 is only completely visible on HDTVs.
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  3. I have also used Ulead DVD Moviefactory2 and today i tried TMPGEnc DVD Author

    Same result

    Any help would really be appriciated. I have a lot of trips on my digital camera and i bought DVD burner just for this

    Thank you guys!
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  4. Nobody can help me with this?
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  5. Less than meets the eye. Phlexor's Avatar
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    Basicly live with it, you could resize it and add a black border to counteract it, but it would look like shit. It's just the way TV's operate. Next time make sure when you video tape something that you zoom out a little and leave yourself a natural border so things will look okay on TV. Just experiment. Computer displays and TV's are 2 different things.
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  6. Phlexor's right - it's called overscan, and it's just how TV's work.

    All you can do about it is try to resize your video stream, allowing a margin of x-pixels all the way around.

    The only thing is that x will be different on different TV sets. On some TV's the extent of the overscan isn't even very symmetrical.

    Basically, you can either a) ignore overscan or b) try to work out what size of margin to add to your videos.

    Do some searches on overscan on this forum, and you'll find lots of posts on this topic.

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    Overscan is not meant to be seen.
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    Sounds like it's your TV. Try a different TV. I'm blessed with an APEX tv in out bedroom that has maybe 2 pixels of overscan (VHS sucks, but DVD rocks). Yours has too much. You can compensate your videos (wrong solution) or get your TV fixed (right solution). Your Vertical and Horizontal gain are too high, but generally speaking these are not consumer adjustments(look at the back of the TV).
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    Overscan is most important to keep in mind when placing subs in a movie stream. In most editing apps you should be able to pull up an overlay of the TV safe areas. I keep subs just above the TV safe area to keep them at the bottom of the screen.

    Can anyone verify if an HDTV overscans? I had heard that they don't.
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  10. So how come when i play a video tape it works just fine? or when i play it directly from the camera? but when i play it over the DVD its different it cuts the screen

    Thx for all of the replies!
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  11. Less than meets the eye. Phlexor's Avatar
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    Then maybe the solution lies in the possibility that yuor DVD player is outputing the video signal just a little bit different than that of your camera and VCR? It could even be the way you are encoding or aurthoring your disc.
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  12. My TV overscans a lots more on component-in. If I plug my DVD player in using the component inputs, it overscans about 5%, but with S-video (and the same DVD player!) the overscan is much less. Looks like a TV can overscan differently on different inputs.

    Are your VCR and DVD player connected to different inputs?
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  13. Yeah, VCR is to normal . don't know the name... but dVD player to Svideo Jack
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    Try your DVD on a differnt DVD player. Comparing TV and PC monitor doesn't cut it. Work backwards. You have covered PC end, now try TV/DVD setup.
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