MemoriesOnTV "TV Safe Region"

[ln108]

I'm working with MOTV 2.1.5. My question is about the "TV Safe Region" setting on the "Advanced Settings" --> "General Settings" menu. The help instructions say, "This setting allows you to configure the amount of TV Safe Region. For most TV's, this should be about 80%-90%."

My question is: The default seems to be 90%. What happens if I change it to 80%? Will the program then reduce the size of the photos output to video, so the edges will be more likely to be visible on a TV monitor? This is what I'd like to happen, but I don't see it happening.

In short, I'm not sure what changing this number does. Any help much appreciated.

Lance

[flaninacupboard]

it may not change the size of the pictures automatically, may just throw up a warning if you go over your now smaller safe area.

just try authoring a simple one picture DVD to your hard drive with it on 90 and on 80, and compare in a software dvd player.

[ln108]

Thanks, flaninacupboard. I've done this, and notice no difference. Also, for the record, I just received a response from MOTV tech support, to wit:

"On your problem, the "VIDEO SAFE REGION" is merely just a guide on the picture to show you where you should avoid placing your text objects. It doesn't actually scale the picture down.

"There's a good reason why it doesn't scale down. The TV cropping problem is dependent on the TV make/model. Different TV make/model will crop the picture on different sides, and to a different amount. As such, any scale down performed is likely to look good on 1 TV, but not on other TV's."

I find this not completely convincing, since if the photo is larger than the dimensions required for DVD mpeg2, the program must scale it down anyway. Why not have a setting to scale it down just a bit more, so that it displays better on particular TV monitors? But perhaps I'm missing something.

[flaninacupboard]

well as an example, one of my tv's is perfectly central, the other, the image is shifted about an inch left of centre. an image the exact right size for TV A would have a big black bar down the right hand side on TV B. this would look very ugly

[TerryG]

I agree with In108, MOTV needs to size the pictures for overscan.

Now, I guess you could batch all you photos with big black boarders and then use the zoom function to adjust. I have several photo that have good stuff at the edge and I have added black to the boarder on one side so I can see that part on the TV better.