TV Safe Zone Images in Womble MPEG Video Wizard

[DoubleACL]

I'm importing images into a Womble MVW project.
The images (of various original sizes) re-size nicely in the Output monitor (maintaining the aspect ratio), but when the MPEG is produced, and a DVD authored, the images are clipped (top & bottom) out of the TV Display. Is there a way to keep the image sizes within the TV "safe zone"?

[gshelley61]

That's normal TV overscan. Standard televisions crop the edges 4%-7% on purpose. If you play back the DVD on a computer system monitor, you will see the entire frame.

[DoubleACL]

Yep, you're absolutely right about the TV overscan. Some editors & authors provide a tv safe zone guide so you know the edge limits.

I'm producing for TV viewing, so I need to allow for the overscan. I'm hoping that there's something I'm missing with MVW, because my only solution at the moment is to resize all the images in a separate image area to make them fit. But I'd rather have a way to have the tool auto-size them for TV viewing because I have hundreds to import.

[gshelley61]

I suppose you could resize them slightly smaller than the full frame, center and border them...

[DoubleACL]

Resizing them (in a tool outside of MVW) was what I was hoping to avoid since I have about 200 images. Tech Support (always faithful) provided a solution which is to use the Zoom Out video filter on the image and reduce its size to fit within screen. I previously thought video filters were only used for video clips & files, not images.

Womble MPV is a GREAT Editor. 37 min presentation mixed with images, videos, transitions, music, titles. Produced and Mpeg2 without any hitches, jerks, dropped video frames, dropped audio, etc. I'm certain any other more well-known tool for for less than $100 would have failed. And I've been there.