Wrong with the format on a DVD i made!

[psl86]

When I played it on my PC you could view the whole video area.. When I burned it using nero express, I lost some of the edges so that the text I had in some parts of the DVD, dissapeared out of the "Viewing zone" on the Television..

So if this is my TV width: ----------------- (17 "lines")
this is my origianal DVD width: ------------------- (19 "lines")

Get it?

Hope someone can help me out here.. I used "DVD-lab pro" to convert it too DVD, but that shouldnt have anything to say, cause the DVD files looks just fine on my PC..

Thanks

[GeorgeW]

You have to plan for the "Overscan" area -- what you see on your PC will not be what you see on your TV. Some words to search:
-Overscan
-Action Safe area
-Title Safe area

[Cunhambebe]

That's it: you'll have to take care with safe areas. There are Action Safe Areas and Title Safe Areas. First ones are the outer squares/rectangles and the second ones are the inner squares/rectangles. Before burning with Nero you'll have to encode the file as MPEG2; at this time you'll have the chance to check out these safe areas. Vegas, Avid, Premiere..all Non Linear Editors (NLE) have this option (show Safe Areas). If your video has already been encoded this way, you may re-encode and resize it so that the action and titles will be safely shown. Sony Vegas can do that for you. Check it out.

[Noahtuck]

If you authored it in TDA (i would hope and assume other authoring programs would do the same, like the other program's the other's mentioned) it has a border which show's the TV safe area that will show the boarder for "overscan" and keep the text you want within the tv "safe" area's so you don't have it cut off or missing when viewed on a T.V. 8)

[guns1inger]

If it is a TV program, then it was shot with overscan in mind, so you haven't lost anything. If it was a movie, then unless you TV have a very large oversacn area, you have lost very little. The only real justification for paranoia and changing the size is if you have donwloaded an anime with burned in subtitles that fall into the overscan area. Otherwise don't worry about it.