Photos on DVD cropped by TV - workaround?

JimWhite wrote on 7/7/2012, 11:15 PM
Using standard aspect ratio 4:3 as inputs to DVD burn.

Resultant DVD when played on my standard TV has the area outside Action Safe Area cropped off, often ruining the jpg photos composition.

I'd like to be able to see the original uncropped images, instead of the TV cropped versions. I do not mind seeing the black borders.

Any cludge or workaround? Either in DVD Architect Studio 5.0 (Build 157) or Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0 (Build 322)

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/8/2012, 7:27 AM
In Vegas, simply make the pictures smaller so that they fit within the visible area.

I don't know that there's any way to do this in DVDA.
videoITguy wrote on 7/8/2012, 3:57 PM
You ALWAYS want to produce your movie/slideshow inside Vegas Platinum or betteryet VegasPro. Inside of these editors on the timeline you are able to make settings of the event pan/crop values or even better the entire timeline so that your pictures are framed well within the borders of safe title area of the screen. This certainly will help pictures that don't have the usual aspect ratio of CRT 4:3 television with a standard DVD playback.

With widescreen 16:9 format on an LCD screen there is a less critical measurement needed - but again experimentation will produce the right composition effect for you.
JimWhite wrote on 7/11/2012, 1:31 PM
videoITguy,

This proposed solution works when a single event is selected. (Thank you!)

When 2 or more video events are selected, the Video Event Pan/Crop feature is inactivated/greyed out in both the menu bar’s Tools -> Video access point and in the right click hot menu access point.

The product provided help did not even hint at doing more than one at a time, but there might be a way, as you suggested, to do the entire timeline (in my case about 250 events, each DVD) all at once.

The application allows the user to design, name, and save a Preset for repeated use in the Event Pan/Crop dialog.

Is there a way to apply this named Preset to a project at the beginning of the project, so that this named Preset gets automatically applied to every event dropped into the project, overridding (in my case) the 4:3 std aspect ratio?

Or is there another method you were alluding to, to do the entire timeline all at once?

Thanks, Jim
musicvid10 wrote on 7/11/2012, 6:28 PM
Event Pan/Crop applies to each event, individually.
Track Motion applies to each Video Track, and every Video Event on that Track.
Tutorials in the program explain this, and you will find many more on Youtube, Creative Cow, etc.
dxdy wrote on 7/15/2012, 4:48 PM
Resize one event with pan/crop. Click on the resized event and copy the event to the clipboard. Select the other events. Click on edit, paste event attributes.

You can also resize the entire track.