Need Help Please

hugojorge wrote on 6/16/2004, 6:48 AM

Hello, I need urgent help with dvd achitect.

I can can't get my movie project to fit in the safe areas.
After I make my dvd, the movie works perfectly on the computer, but when I see it on my home dvd it gets out of the tv screen.

How can I reduce it to fit in the safe areas?

Thank you.

Hugo

Comments

bStro wrote on 6/16/2004, 7:22 AM

Is there anything important outside the safe areas that it vital for the viewer to see?

If not, don't worry about it. All movies have some miscelaneous content outside the safe area. It's just the way televisions are (has to do with tubes and scanning and technical junk). If you resize your video so that it all fits inside the safe areas, then it will look weird on computers and on more advanced televisions (plasma, for example). On such screens, you would have an empty border all the way around your movie.

If there's something really important that you see on the computer but not on the TV, DVDA can't help you. It doesn't manimulate your movie's content. Open your video in Vegas, and use its Pan and Crop feature to increase the size of the viewing area. It's gonna look goofy, though. ;-)

Rob

hugojorge wrote on 6/16/2004, 7:29 AM

Thank you Rob.

The only problem I had was the menu, because some of the buttons were out of the safe areas, but now i've resized the whole thing and it looks alright.

Thank you very much for your help. ;-)

Hugo