Me video is cropped when I play it on the TV, what's wrong?

savitu · Post by **savitu** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:20 pm

I recently created a DVD from my holiday videos and the text I entered in the video was cropped both at the top and bottom of the screen. Why does this happen? IS there a way I can make this not happen? When i create the menu I can see the safe box but when editing my video this safe box doesn't appear

. Can i create a video that won't be cropped?

Thank You

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:31 pm

During editing, go to File.....Preferences....General...Display title safe area in preview window. Keep your titles within the safe area.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:12 pm

The curious thing, though, is that when adding titles, the safe area box automatically shows on the screen -- I didn't think that had anything to do with a setting in File > Preferences (which I leave off in any case).

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:20 pm

Ken Berry wrote:The curious thing, though, is that when adding titles, the safe area box automatically shows on the screen -- I didn't think that had anything to do with a setting in File > Preferences (which I leave off in any case).

That "safe area rectangle" does not show for me if I have it turned off in File / Preferences. Are you saying it shows for you regardless of the setting in File / Preferences?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:52 pm

Why does this happen?

It's called overscan and it's normal. TVs are adjusted for overscan to compensate for analog variations. A newer, better-adjusted TV will usually have less overscan than an older TV.

IS there a way I can make this not happen?

You can try adjusting your TV (horizontal & vertical size, and horizontal & vertical position). However, you may not have control over all of the TVs that this DVD is shown on in the future...

If there's something really important in the image that you don't want cut-off, you can zoom-out the video to make it smaller... to fit inside the safe area.

In the future, keep overscan in mind when you shoot the video. (And, when you add titles during editing).

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:47 pm

George : as our American friends might say -- my bad!

I just checked and changed the Preference not to show the safe area, and sure enough it did not show either when I made a title. Guess I have always just taken this for granted...

savitu · Post by **savitu** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:04 am

I see, thanks for the help gentlemen. Too bad iI didn't know that before.... Now now I already created a movie with the tittles over the safebox area. Is there a way I can reduce the size of the movie so that I can fit it on the screen of my TV? In other forums people told me to use the effect tranform in Nero Vision but I don't have that software.
Thanks

savitu · Post by **savitu** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:10 am

If i create create a new movie with this one, but with a 640X480 resolution will it then fit on my TV screen? Will the quality become too poor?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:29 am

If i create create a new movie with this one, but with a 640X480 resolution will it then fit on my TV screen?

No. 640x480 is not allowed by the DVD standard, so Video Studio will re-code it back to 720x576 for the PAL DVD standard.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:04 am

What version of VideoStudio do you have, and do you have all the "original" videos?

If you have the option to "distort" the video, you can scale it down (top/bottom and left/right) to fit inside the "safe" area.

You just want to avoid multiple re-rendering of the same video -- so if you have the 1st generation videos, that would help retain quality. You can even try starting a new project, insert the original PROJECT FILE (*.VSP), and scale it down...

Regards,
George

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:51 am

savitu · Post by **savitu** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:35 am

I use Videostudio 10, unfortunately I don't have the original videos, my HD ran out os space so I had to delete some stuff. How do I rescale the video?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:55 pm

savitu wrote:I use Videostudio 10, unfortunately I don't have the original videos, my HD ran out os space so I had to delete some stuff. How do I rescale the video?

The basic idea is to put your video onto the timeline (Either Import from DVD, or use an "edited" version of the video if you have one already on your hard drive -- use the "least compressed" version), and then hit the "ATTRIBUTE" tab, then the Distort Clip option -- then on your preview window you should see some yellow handles you can click-drag to scale your video. Or put your video on the Overlay track and adjust the yellow handles. After adjusting/scaling your video, rt-click inside the picture and select Keep Aspect ratio.

Regards,
George

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:59 pm

If the title in question is on a colored background clip, simply make the default background that same color (File > Preferences > Background Color) and nobody will know the difference.