Help -I'm losing the top and bottom of my pictures.

[Screwball]

In Video Studio 9, when I view my video in edit mode, all is perfect. After burning to DVD I am losing the top and bottom of my video including the second line of titles. Effectively the playback seems to have zoomed in. Should I select a different mode in preferences or something??? I am enjoying this programme so much but this is spoiling my finished production.

[Ken Berry]

When you do your titles, there are two concentric white rectangles on screen. The inner one is the really safe area where you can place your titles and they will always appear. The outer rectangle marks the absolute limit of where you can place your titles but they should, to keep on the safe side, not even be touching that rectangle. That outer rectangle really marks the out limits of what is called the 'safe area' of a television screen, and anything outside the outside rectangle is unlikely to appear on a television screen. Of course, there are no absolutes, and varying TV screens (and types of TV such as plasma or LCD) will have varying size safe areas. But this is also probably why you are not only not seeing all of your titles, but you are also not seeing the outer edges of your masterpiece! When you are actually taking your videos with the camera, it is a wise bet always to keep your zooms a little wider than you might normally do, so there is more in the overall screen. This will then make sure that, when you take the safe area into account, all the important bits of the scene will eventually show on a TV screen.