black borders on DVDs

fretdust wrote on 7/21/2013, 4:46 AM
Hi, i recently purchased Movie Studio Platinum Suite 12 with the main idea to create some DVDs and Blue Ray discs of my home recordings.

Im using a DSLR camera to record the videos and im recording them in 720p (i thought 1080p was overkill ) and 24 frames per second as i read that can give a nice movie like feel.

Perhaps should also mention i live in the UK which would be PAL format.

Inside movie studio im using HDV 720-24p (1280x720, 23.976 fps) as the template in my project properties, but everytime i try to make a DVD im getting black borders top and bottom when viewing the DVD on my samsung widescreen 1080p TV.

Obvisously i can alter the settings on the TV to zoom in more and fill the screen or to stretch the movie out but i dont really want to do this if i can avoid it.

In the burn to DVD screen i set the video format to a couple of different things including MPEG-2 720x480 24p 16x9 NTSC and also i think 720x576 50i 16x9 PAL but every DVD ive burned has looked the same with the black borders.

any ideas? also was recording in 24 frames a bad idea? perhaps 25 frames might have been better for exporting to DVD?

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/21/2013, 6:58 AM
Your problem has to do with the 'do not letterbox' option, I thingk.
But,
why burn to dvd or blu-ray?
I also own a Samsung LED tv . It has a usb-connection and it plays all my videos (720p/1080p just fine) I create with the standard templates that come with Vegas from a usb stick. The life expectancy of a dvd or blu-ray disc is shorter than that of a usb memory stick (one of mine is still going strong, even after a full 2 hours and 30 minutes in our washing machine!).
fretdust wrote on 7/21/2013, 7:39 AM
Yes my samsung TV has the same usb slot but i was assuming that most people dont own such a TV while everyone practically has either a dvd or blu ray player so i could give a copy to friends and relatives.

I had a quick look but cant seem to find the do not letterbox option that you mentioned :/

edit: I see it now, didnt realise there was a scroll bar giving more options, ill give this a go and see what happens.

edit2: just realised that option is only there when rendering to a file or to a dvd with menus. when making a dvd with no menus it dosnt give that option.
MSmart wrote on 7/21/2013, 2:13 PM
Do the project settings in DVD Architect Studio match that of Movie Studio?