DVD Studio Cuts off my movie by 10% around the perimeter

Flasher182 wrote on 11/10/2004, 8:25 PM
I made a DVD complient mpg with movie studio and made menus etc. with DVD studio. It burns successfully and will play back on my dvd player. The only thing is part of the movie is cut off all around, like 10% of it is gone all around the perimeter like it is zoomed in. I checked the dvd settings and played around with them but it didn't work. I used all the default settings in DVD studio to burn. What did i do wrong??

Thanks,

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PeterWright wrote on 11/10/2004, 9:25 PM
If the edge loss is on a TV, it could be normal - tvs tend to cut off varying amounts around the edge - there are "safe area" overlays in Vegas and DVDA to help keep important information visible.

On the other hand, if you are viewing on a PC monitor, and still missing the edge, that's a mystery.
Flasher182 wrote on 11/11/2004, 6:10 AM
it works fine on my pc but like you said it cuts off some on the tv. I fixed the menu on the dvd to be in the tv's safe area but i don't see how to change the movie to be in the safe area on the tv. What should i do?
ScottW wrote on 11/11/2004, 6:39 AM
Up to 10% overscan by TV's is normal and you need to take it into account when you are shooting your footage. The DV camcorder that I use displays the action safe area on the viewer, though it's actually recording a slightly larger picture.

If you go back into Vegas you can use the pan/crop tool to "zoom" out, but be warned, if you do this, then on some TV's your picture will show up with a black border; some TV's will look normal, and some TV's may still crop some of the picture.

Also be aware that there are 2 safe areas: Action safe (which is the safe area causing you problems) and title safe. The title safe area is even smaller than the action safe area.

--Scott


PeterWright wrote on 11/11/2004, 6:40 AM
It's best to keep this in mind whilst shooting - avoid having important stuff near the edge of the frame.

You could use Track Motion to reduce the size of the whole picture, then you'd have a black margin around the outside which would show on PCs and some TVs.

The margin could be changed to a colour or texture on a lower track, but it's a bit of a compromise.


Kal_Vegas wrote on 11/12/2004, 11:17 AM
It's not just TV that overscan the picture by 5-10% but all movies you see in a theatre do the same. It's a completely normal part of making motion pictures/TV. It's very useful as during shooting the crew can view using an "underscanned" monitor (most pro monitors have an under/overscan button) and line up stuff like a boom mic to just the edge of picture where they can see it just at the point of creeping into shot but they know no-one watching at home or in a theatre will. It's very hard to lineup a CRT monitor/TV or projected image onto a screen with exactly the correct lineup and this is one of the reasons for overscanning or over projecting the image - to get a nice sharp border.