Having problems with menu size playing on Regular TV

westside wrote on 7/3/2003, 7:18 PM

Hey guys...Great forum. I am having problems with the menu I designed in DVDA looking correct on the screen. I am using the non-widescreen menu based project but it still looks like it is configured for widescreen. When I play the DVD I lose the menu around the edges... Is there something I am missing? Are you just supposed to compensate by putting nothing around the edges? On my last test DVD when I played it on a widescreen TV I saw all the graphics....haven't checked this one yet but I bet it will turn out the same. I checked the preferences and it is set to NTSC 720x480. What do you have to do to have it set for standard 4:3????

Thanks and happy 4th

west

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PeterWright wrote on 7/3/2003, 7:51 PM

There's a "safe area" for TV playback - DVDA has an overlay you can click on and off to show this.

TVs vary widely in how much of the picture actually shows, and using the safe area should make all your buttons or text visible.

westside wrote on 7/3/2003, 11:49 PM

Cool.....I will check it out!

Thanks

PeterWright wrote on 7/4/2003, 5:52 AM

Its under Options.

westside wrote on 7/5/2003, 12:46 AM

Thanks Peter....It makes sense now...