Video sizing problems in Pinnacle Studio 9

[Ashmai]

Hello

I currently took on a project to make a DVD for a gaming LAN for counter-strike I recently attended and have not had much prior experience in video editing until I took this upon myself. I seem to be doing ok, but am encountering a serious problem.

In counter-strike I play at 1024x768 res, as in most games I play. Well, i realize that a TV will have diffrent dimintions than the computer resolution I play in. In the final DVD, i want to have all the digital camcorder recordings we took (res is not a problem, as it was made for the TV) AND some gameplay footage at the end.

Here is a screenshot of my layout



My problem is, when I turn the whole project into a DVD image (vob files) and play it on the computer, obviously the 1024x768 in game footage looks perfect. but when I play it on a TV, I loose about 2 inches off every side of the video, here is what I am talking about.



EVEN IF I CHANGE THE IN GAME FOOTAGE FROM 1024x768 to 720x480 IT ONLY STRETCHS THE VIDEO OUT AT LOWER RESULUTION, SAME PROBLEM, WORSE RES

sorry for bold/caps, that part was important.

My question is, how can I get all the in game footage into a format that a TV and Pinnacle Studio 9 will keep in the boxes for its resulotion and not stretch? Obviously there will either be a black bar on top and bottom of the TV, or on the sides, but thats ok, at least all the video will be there and not cut it off.

Thank you so much in advance, I am trying to get this done as a free project for a bunch of highly anticipating individuals, and do it within a couple weeks. Add on top of that Im a newb at video editing, and we have a seriously busy half a month

thank you guys,

Cam

ps, any other info you might need, just ask.

I have premier pro, after effects, and photoshop, along with Studio 9.

[sitlet]

Im a newb at video editing

I have premier pro, after effects, and photoshop, along with Studio 9.

wow, thats quite a collection. $1500 worth of software for someone who is a beginner at video editing. i wish i had that much money to throw into new hobbies all the time


as for your problem, its due to the overscan of tv's. do a search on here for "overscan" if you want more info on it. but basically almost all tv's will cut off a little around the edges of videos. theres no way to stop it. so the only way to help counter this is to shrink the video with editing software. im not familiar with studio 9, but im very familiar with premiere pro. just import your video, and use the transform or motion effects (both do the same thing). ans vertically and horizontally shrink the video down until it is in the action safe zone. in premiere, if you right click the preview window, there should be an option to enable the grid lines to show you where the overscan will be. if you enable that option, you can shrink the video down to the lines on the preview window. then export to dvd and try it out.

[Ashmai]

thank you for your help, i will try that out.

as for the software,

I take a web design class in college. We live in a smaller town, and our web design / video editing / design classes are all taught by the same teacher.

When you join the class you have the option of buying each title for about 70 dollars through a college deal, or all three (photoshop, preimeir, aftereffects) for 200 dollars. I figured I might as well have them all, and had a student loan to pay for it.

Studio Version 9 I actually went and purchased last week for 100 bucks at bestbuy because premiere was a bit to hard core for me, and was more user friendly for begginers.