slideshow cuts parts of slides

thecaptain wrote on 12/3/2008, 7:03 AM

I have been working on a slideshow presentation and noticed after rendering to mpeg2 and playing the DVD back on a standard TV that the pictures are chopped off. I am sure this is a render setting that can be rectified easily. I want to make sure the whole picture is displayed. For the render setting I used 720x480 NTSC DVD. These are scanned 35 mm slides being used in the show. Is it better to use 352x480 as the setting? or is it in the aspect ratio?

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/3/2008, 7:46 AM

Display the safe areas in the preview window. Anything in those areas SHOULD show in any SD/HD TV. *SHOULD*. If needed scale via pan/crop to adjust (or track motion).

thecaptain wrote on 12/3/2008, 7:56 AM

I have the safe area shown and it shows all of the pictures. it's the final DVD rendering that is chopping off the pictures all around.

rs170a wrote on 12/3/2008, 8:00 AM

The rendering process won't do anything to your pictures.
This problem is caused by your TV set and is a well-known issue.
Search this site for overscan.

Mike

thecaptain wrote on 12/3/2008, 8:39 AM

Mike, thanks I will look at overscan. I appreciate it.

rs170a wrote on 12/3/2008, 9:59 AM

Have a look at Wikipedia's explanation of overscan.

Mike