Can I Change Format???

[jmarkt]

I have a video that has been edited and menus added. It was shot using 16:9 and now I find that format won't fit properly on my TV. It has six menus and several songs/soundbytes/stills added, etc. and I would rather not "re-edit" the entire 45 min. movie.

How can I modify/re-render this movie and burn as a "regular size" DVD that will fit on my TV? I'm using Premiere Pro 2.0 and also have Nero as a burning tool. I checked the 4:3 letterbox and re-rendered, but the end result was basically the same - parts of the stills/graphics ran off the TV screen, and it produced four files...Travels.m2v, Travels.xmpses, Travels.wav and Travels.xmp

Thanks for any help.

[guns1inger]

What do you mean when you say it won't fit on your TV ?

If you DVD player is set up correctly, 16:9 material will fit on a 4:3 screen, however it will have black bars top and bottom.

If you are getting a letterboxed image and there is still text flowing off screen then whoever created it did not observe the basics of safe areas, and have positioned the text in the overscan area. The only way to fix this is to reduce the image size, pad out the frame with black, and re-render.

[jmarkt]

The text isn't what's off the screen; an AVI file (not made with PPro) was included in the movie, with 956X750 demensions...this one was wider than the TV screen when I rendered the movie in 16:9 AND 4:3. I have redone the AVI file to NTSC DVD which is 720X480 at 16:9 - hope this works!