VideoStudio9 Finished DVD Image Too Big for TV Screen
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VideoStudio9 Finished DVD Image Too Big for TV Screen
How do I burn my edited movies onto DVDs that will result in the complete image being visible on a TV screen. The image is perfect on my computer screen, but too big (clipped off) on all four edges of the TV screen.
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You don't tell us what type of TV you have, nor very much else. Are you talking about widescreen (16:9) or normal (4:3)?
But I assume you know that all traditional TV sets normally never show *all* of an image broadcast on them. This is essentially because of the curve of the cathode ray tube used in them. Usually, the amount clipped off is around 10% on each edge (sometimes more, sometimes a little less). The area within that border is called the 'safe area' -- because you can safely see everything within the border.
Video shown in a software DVD player on your computer is different as it will always show everything in the video out to the very edge. The software player is digital and does not have a curved tube within it.
You have to know this and bear it in mind when you are filming any video in your camera. In other words, you have to mentally always leave a border of about 10% around anything you are filming to make sure everything important you want to show on a TV will be seen. So stand a bit further back or do not zoom in so much.
That does not help, I know, if you have already filmed everything.
About the only thing I can think of to do with your video is put it in an overlay track (though you also don't tell us which version of Video Studio you are using). When you do this in VS10+, for instance, your video will appear as a much smaller size in the middle of the screen. The screen moreover shows a 'safe area' border. In the overlay tracks, you can then pull the borders of your video out to the safe area border, or just a little over to be safer!
Then you could render and the final mpeg-2 would have a 10% black border around it but you would not see this when played back on TV.
The only problem with this is that there is only a limited number of things you can do by way of editing to videos in an overlay track. You can't apply normal transitions, for instance, though there are ways around this. You could, for instance, do all your editing as normal, with your video in the main timeline, applying transitions, background music etc. Then save your project. It goes into a .VSP file normally stored in your working folder (File > Preferences > General, three quarters of the way down).
Then start a new project. Put your mouse in the overlay track and right click. Choose 'Insert Video'. Then direct the browse window to where your .VSP file is stored. Click on it, and your earlier fully edited project will now be inserted in the middle of the overlay track. Drag its borders out to the safe area border as above. Then render to a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 (Share > Create Video File > DVD).
But you can only do this in VS10+. It was a new feature to allow VSP files to be used like video files.
But I assume you know that all traditional TV sets normally never show *all* of an image broadcast on them. This is essentially because of the curve of the cathode ray tube used in them. Usually, the amount clipped off is around 10% on each edge (sometimes more, sometimes a little less). The area within that border is called the 'safe area' -- because you can safely see everything within the border.
Video shown in a software DVD player on your computer is different as it will always show everything in the video out to the very edge. The software player is digital and does not have a curved tube within it.
You have to know this and bear it in mind when you are filming any video in your camera. In other words, you have to mentally always leave a border of about 10% around anything you are filming to make sure everything important you want to show on a TV will be seen. So stand a bit further back or do not zoom in so much.
That does not help, I know, if you have already filmed everything.
About the only thing I can think of to do with your video is put it in an overlay track (though you also don't tell us which version of Video Studio you are using). When you do this in VS10+, for instance, your video will appear as a much smaller size in the middle of the screen. The screen moreover shows a 'safe area' border. In the overlay tracks, you can then pull the borders of your video out to the safe area border, or just a little over to be safer!
Then you could render and the final mpeg-2 would have a 10% black border around it but you would not see this when played back on TV.The only problem with this is that there is only a limited number of things you can do by way of editing to videos in an overlay track. You can't apply normal transitions, for instance, though there are ways around this. You could, for instance, do all your editing as normal, with your video in the main timeline, applying transitions, background music etc. Then save your project. It goes into a .VSP file normally stored in your working folder (File > Preferences > General, three quarters of the way down).
Then start a new project. Put your mouse in the overlay track and right click. Choose 'Insert Video'. Then direct the browse window to where your .VSP file is stored. Click on it, and your earlier fully edited project will now be inserted in the middle of the overlay track. Drag its borders out to the safe area border as above. Then render to a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 (Share > Create Video File > DVD).
But you can only do this in VS10+. It was a new feature to allow VSP files to be used like video files.
Ken Berry