Hi,
Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I searched the forums and couldn't find an answer.
I'm trying to burn a dvd from video I captured from a mini dv camera and I'm having some trouble. I've tried encoding my video file as both wmv and avi in 720x480 and I've tried all the different resolution settings in MF4, as well as all the settings on my dvd player. However, while the playback is perfect on my computer, on my TV the top and bottom of the picture are always cutoff. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?
Thanks,
Grant
Problem with DVD playback on television
You mean like the top of peoples heads cut-off? That kind of thing?
If it's just a little bit, that's normal. It's called overscan.
Analog/CRT TVs are adjusted so that some of the picture is cut-off around the edges. This is because the picture might tend to drift-around a little as the TV warms-up, or over the years as the TV ages. A little overscan makes sure that the full-screen is filled-up with picture. A good well-adjusted TV will have less overscan than a cheap TV.
TV and movie producers try to keep the important parts of the image away from the edges. The area that should always show-up on every TV is call the "safe area". Anything outside the safe area, my not show-up on some TVs.
If it's just a little bit, that's normal. It's called overscan.
Analog/CRT TVs are adjusted so that some of the picture is cut-off around the edges. This is because the picture might tend to drift-around a little as the TV warms-up, or over the years as the TV ages. A little overscan makes sure that the full-screen is filled-up with picture. A good well-adjusted TV will have less overscan than a cheap TV.
TV and movie producers try to keep the important parts of the image away from the edges. The area that should always show-up on every TV is call the "safe area". Anything outside the safe area, my not show-up on some TVs.
You should "capture" to AVI/DV. (This is not really a capture, but rather a direct-digital transfer of the DV data from your camera to your hard drive.) Movie Factory will encode it to MPEG-2 (DVD format) for you. Both WMV and MPEG use "lossy" compression... The idea is to encode/compress it only once, because you loose some quality/detail every time it's compressed.I've tried encoding my video file as both wmv and avi in 720x480...
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