LOSING TOP AND BOTTOM OF PORTRAIT ORIENTATION
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LOSING TOP AND BOTTOM OF PORTRAIT ORIENTATION
When I playback my dvd's, If a picture is a portrait orientation I lose quite a chunk off top and bottom - if it is landscape PERFECT. Yet in preview on the computer it is perfect. No it is not the tv setting although I have a widescreen. Is there somewhere in ulead that compensates for this?
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I'm not sure what you're describing.... If your image does not have 4x3 (or 16x9) proportions, it isn't going to fit the screen...
In general, here's what I do with my photo editing software:
I have a blank template... a 4x3 ratio rectangle filled with a solid color. Of course, you can use 16x9 if you're working in widescreen.
I paste the photo on top of that solid-color image. I adjust the picture size (without changing the proportions) so that the solid background becomes a frame around the picture.
I leave some frame-area around all four sides of the picture, to allow for the normal over-scan area that does not show-up on a TV.
In general, here's what I do with my photo editing software:
I have a blank template... a 4x3 ratio rectangle filled with a solid color. Of course, you can use 16x9 if you're working in widescreen.
I paste the photo on top of that solid-color image. I adjust the picture size (without changing the proportions) so that the solid background becomes a frame around the picture.
I leave some frame-area around all four sides of the picture, to allow for the normal over-scan area that does not show-up on a TV.
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Re: LOSING TOP AND BOTTOM OF PORTRAIT ORIENTATION
Of course it is not the TV settings, the TV only displays what it gets put in. The problem is in your settings on your DVD player. All of them are slightly different when it comes to "Letterboxing". Because your image is higher than it is wide, it either needs the top and bottom trimmed or the sides padded to fill the screen. Your DVD player, currently, is set to trim top/bottom.Screwball wrote:When I playback my dvd's, If a picture is a portrait orientation I lose quite a chunk off top and bottom - if it is landscape PERFECT. Yet in preview on the computer it is perfect. No it is not the tv setting although I have a widescreen. Is there somewhere in ulead that compensates for this?
Another reason for missing bits on top and bottom is the "Overscan area" of the TV screen. 10 to 15% of the full frame picture is not actually displayed on the TV. That's why VS/MSP and other NLE programs have, what is called the "Title Safe" area. To overcome that, do what DVDDoug suggested and have a solid color frame even on top and bottom. You can play around with the vertical size of your image until you get it right.