burned DVD not filling tv screen.

Ken-Tonks wrote on 8/22/2025, 10:12 PM

I've been trying for hours and hours to burn a DVD that fills the screen. I have both wide and old style tv's and I can't get rid of the black border either on the sides if I choose to burn 4 to 3 ratio or a box with border all around if I switch to burn 16-9. I'm trying to match project properties to render but its a pretty complicated deal once things go off the rails. I have "adjust source media to better match..." checked.

template I am on now is HD 1080 60i (1920x1080 fps) 29.70 NTSC, 1000 square.

render as: Mainconcept MPEG-2. Template Program stream NTSC (which shows in specs 720x480 29.97 fps.

I have render options set to stretch.

 

DVD burner set now to MPEG-2 720-480 60i 4:3 NTSC... this setting is giving me black bars on each side. When I change to 16:9 option I get video in a box. Inch or two border around every video.

Any ideas would be appreciated! thanks much

Vegas pro 22

 

Ken

Comments

EricLNZ wrote on 8/22/2025, 11:37 PM

What is your source material 4:3 or 16:9?

3POINT wrote on 8/23/2025, 2:57 AM

AFAIK we had this discussion already here, @Ken-Tonks is trying to burn mp4 music videos to DVD.

sky-w wrote on 8/23/2025, 4:26 AM

@Ken-Tonks You need to understand, which I know you already know, the ratio of a video. In short, if your video is in 16:9 ratio and you want to see it on a 4:3 ratio TV, you will see two black bars on the top and bottom. If the video be of 21:9, those borders' height will increase and if your video is of 4:3 ratio and you want to see it on a 16:9 ratio TV, you will see two black side bars on either side of the video. If the TV ratio be 21:9, those bars will get thicker. This is a standard made a long ago to maintain the aspect ratio of a video so that on whatever ratio device it is shown, the image must not get distorted. There is nop way around. This is the way the hardware of a display works which no one can change. The ratio of the source material is most important i.e. on what ratio the source material has been recorded.

You can visit this page for more clarification: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/what-is-the-aspect-ratio-4-3-16-9-21-9

Ken-Tonks wrote on 8/23/2025, 11:38 AM

@Ken-Tonks You need to understand, which I know you already know, the ratio of a video. In short, if your video is in 16:9 ratio and you want to see it on a 4:3 ratio TV, you will see two black bars on the top and bottom. If the video be of 21:9, those borders' height will increase and if your video is of 4:3 ratio and you want to see it on a 16:9 ratio TV, you will see two black side bars on either side of the video. If the TV ratio be 21:9, those bars will get thicker. This is a standard made a long ago to maintain the aspect ratio of a video so that on whatever ratio device it is shown, the image must not get distorted. There is nop way around. This is the way the hardware of a display works which no one can change. The ratio of the source material is most important i.e. on what ratio the source material has been recorded.

You can visit this page for more clarification: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/what-is-the-aspect-ratio-4-3-16-9-21-9

 

Ken-Tonks wrote on 8/23/2025, 11:45 AM

Hi and thanks so much for the link, it was very helpful. Especially the chart showing various screens! However, this is a new problem. I've burned DVD's on Vegas pro on my other computer that were fine. Some minor cropping on widescreen tv's but not like this. Last night before I went to bed I messed with more settings and settings on burner. Probably my 12th DVD burn to test if this combination would help. I burned it and closed down computer for night then went and played it and it worked! Here is the combination that worked best. Some cropping as you indicated is unavoidable but this problem was different. Hard for me because my source files used can by different aspect ratios etc. But this combo worked and I hope will continue to do so. For me it was a combo of picking/testing aspect ratio on burner as well as settings in VP22Thanks so much for the link though, it really helped me get a better grasp of how it works