Made IDVD, looks fine on computer, but edges fall off TV screen

[valerie]

After 6 thousand hours of working on this project: Filming, editing on Imovie HD-6 forever, and finally saving to Quicktime Movie, and then sending it to IDVD (several times), I have a movie that looks great on the computer, but on a TV, the edges fall off the screen. This is a big deal because there are words on some of those edges that are cut off. This is true of both sides of the screen on a big screen TV and a small, not HD TV.

I have saved the QT movie in a 4:3 and a 16:9 (on the advice of Applecare, and, yes, that makes no sense, but I did it anyway). Both aspects have the same consequence on the TV screen anyway.

This is a movie I made of my mother's life, and need to send it to a lot of relatives. I don't want there to be any glitches!!
Can anyone help?

I only have the MacBook Pro IDVD program to burn a disk with.....vcave2@yahoo.com

[johns0]

Thread moved to the mac forum where you can get more help.What you are seeing is the tv overscan which hides about 5% of the edges,what you should do is in the editing stage is add about 5% black borders to compensate and welcome to the forums.

[valerie]

Is there an option to do that on HD-6 to your knowledge?

[videopoo]

Google the terms "action safe" and "title safe". They are very important in video post production