DVD sides keep cutting off

Lewallner wrote on 2/25/2014, 1:10 PM

I have 2 minute video I created that works great when I render it mp4 or wmv format, but I can't get it on DVD format, without some of the text on my screen/sides of the images cutting off.
I'm a complete novice user so the whole project specs are relatively-no, absolutely- meaningless to me, I just went with whatever the default was.
So the project specs on the original project were: HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps). I'd rendered out an mp4 for someone to use on their ipad, and then used that same mp4 to create a new project for the dvd with the 2 minute video repeating for an hour. I set the project properties on this one to: NTSC DV Widescreen (720x480, 29.970 fps) and when that didn't work, changed it to NTSC DV 24p (720x480, 23.976 fps).
I used the "make movie" command>burn to disc>dvd without menus> MPEG-2 720x480-60i, 16:9 (NTSC) which didn't work and then also tried the MPEG-2 720x480-60i, 4:3 (NTSC) option and then finally the MPEG-2 720x480-24p, 4:3 (NTSC).
No clue what my project and render settings should be to match up/avoid this problem. Help is appreciated. Thank you

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/25/2014, 3:09 PM

I suspect your text exceeds the safe limits for DVD. You can set the preview to show the safe limits overlay.

Chienworks wrote on 2/25/2014, 5:37 PM

I'm guessing you're watching the DVD on an actual television when you see the sides missing. Try watching it on your computer's monitor instead. You should see everything then. Televisions often crop off 5 or 10% of the edges of the image. If television is your intended output you have to take this into account and make sure you leave space around the edges that you can lose and keep everything important away from the edges.

Lewallner wrote on 2/26/2014, 7:11 AM

Yes, I'm watching the DVD on a television-that is the final output desired. It's intended for display on a television monitor. My preference would be that they use a laptop and run it in windows media player but they've requested DVD as backup. Most of the text slides were created as jpegs in photoshop and used an overlay (it's a frame, with text) so I would have to redo 20+ slides to adjust to keep it away from the edges.
If they run it from a laptop on the tv monitor, will it still cut off or is it just the dvd format?

Chienworks wrote on 2/26/2014, 8:38 AM

Are the slides just the text on a clear or solid color background? You could use Pan/Crop to stretch the cropping frame out larger, thus making the slide smaller. Once you've adjusted the first one copy it, select the rest, and Paste Event Attributes to copy that cropping to all the others in one swipe.

It's not the DVD that is the problem, it's the television. If they watch the DVD on the laptop it will be fine. If they watch the media player version on a television connected to the laptop, it will get cropped.