DVD's picture is too big for my TV

[Thehebrewhammer]

Hi, I just burned a dvd that I made in a trial of adobe encore DVD. It looks fine on my computer, but when I watch it on my tv, the picture is larger than it should be, and as a result, I do not see everything I should (some is cropped out). I've heard this is common... any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[Martyn1980]

Depends how much is cropped out, but it sounds like just Overscan.

A TV screen is partly hidden behind the case, so a small area around the image is cropped when compared to the same image on a PC Monitor.

What you could do is make sure that all the important imformation, is centred.

Does Adobe have a Overscan feature or the ability to crop the image, as ive not used it myself.

[tedkunich]

Hi, I just burned a dvd that I made in a trial of adobe encore DVD. It looks fine on my computer, but when I watch it on my tv, the picture is larger than it should be, and as a result, I do not see everything I should (some is cropped out). I've heard this is common... any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

That is called overscan and is done within the TV. The only "fix" you can try is to shrink your source and add borders around your video and re-encode. How much border you need depends on the TV - My Sony 32" XBR crops an equivalent of 28 pixles on the left and right (have not tested the vertical since my source is letterboxed).


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[Thehebrewhammer]

Is there no way to create a DVD that can be viewed on different kinds of tv sets?

[lordsmurf]

Is there no way to create a DVD that can be viewed on different kinds of tv sets?

No. Overscan.

[skebenin]

Is there no way to create a DVD that can be viewed on different kinds of tv sets?

Sure, TV stations do something very similar all the time (and I mean ALL of the time). The trick is to center the action in a safe area so that only unimportant portions of the picture will be affected by overscan. Unfortunately you have to do this while you're shooting the footage - you can't add it on afterward.

The only thing you can do after the fact is to add black borders. It isn't that bad though - even when you can see the black borders (when they're not completely masked by overscan), you'll quickly get used to them. It's very much like watching a letterboxed movie - after a few minutes you don't even notice the black bars.

[Martyn1980]

If you experiment enough, you should find out the perfect size of borders to put on your videos, so that your not losing any of the image, and there isnt any borders either.

It will be pictureframed on the PC, but that shouldn't matter, if the intent is for TV's

Also you could check the Zoom on the DVD player, some let you zoom out as well as in.