Video Resolution Help

whiplash wrote on 5/10/2003, 7:16 PM

I have VV4+DVD and when I render a video in the DVDA NTSC compliant format (720x480), burn the DVD and play it on a TV the sides are cut off. The video was captured from with the DV codec of VV4 at 720x480 and rendered as NTSC 720x480. I have tried rendering at other resolution but then DVDA re-renders the video. When displayed on the PC the rendered video is not cropped.

Is there a way to render, author the DVD and display the video on a TV without cropping the edges. I'm new to this and any help would be appreciated.

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John_Cline wrote on 5/10/2003, 11:03 PM

All TV's "overscan" to some degree. This means that the TV will not display the outer 5% or so of the picture you see on the computer. It's perfectly normal. Look up "safe title area" and "safe action area" on the web for a more detailed explanation. The following is directly from the Vegas help file:

"The Video Preview window displays the entire video frame, although most television monitors will not display all of this data. Choose Safe Areas to display borders around your video to represent the visible areas for action and titles. The outer border marks the area that will be visible on a television screen, and the inner border is the suggested area for titles.

After verifying that your action and titles are within the safe areas, however, you should test your project on the destination television monitor.

Set the grid spacing using the Action safe area and Title safe area settings on the Video tab in the Preferences dialog."

John