When I play my slideshow on my computer, I see the entire image for all slides.
But, when I view the slideshow on my TV using my DVD player, some of the slides are being cut off on the top/bottom, others on the 2 sides.
How can I make sure the entire image gets displayed on the TV screen?
Losing edges of image in slideshow
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Chris Gaines
It's called overscan I believe.
I'm using the earlier DVD PictureShow 2 so don't know if it's improved any but here's what my documentation says:
When creating your own menu backgrounds, the
recommended dimensions to use is either 640x480
pixels or 768x576 pixels. The background image will be
stretched to fill the entire TV screen. For image
dimensions other than the recommended size, to avoid
distortion, the ratio of the width and height need to be
4:3, same as a TV screen. Please also note that about
15% of edges (7.5% each side) will be outside the TV
screen and therefore not viewable.
Not what you want to hear I know, but you may have to live with it I'm afraid.
(Depends how far you want to go but it may be possible to work around this limitation with say Photoimpact by creating a plain black background image the size of your original photo, then reducing your original image by 15% all round and merging it centered onto the black image. Save that new image and use it in your PictureShow. That way you'd only be losing the sides of the black background.) This would be very time consuming though and you'd need to decide whether it's worth all the effort.
Hopefully someone else on the board can offer a better answer.
Good luck
I'm using the earlier DVD PictureShow 2 so don't know if it's improved any but here's what my documentation says:
When creating your own menu backgrounds, the
recommended dimensions to use is either 640x480
pixels or 768x576 pixels. The background image will be
stretched to fill the entire TV screen. For image
dimensions other than the recommended size, to avoid
distortion, the ratio of the width and height need to be
4:3, same as a TV screen. Please also note that about
15% of edges (7.5% each side) will be outside the TV
screen and therefore not viewable.
Not what you want to hear I know, but you may have to live with it I'm afraid.
(Depends how far you want to go but it may be possible to work around this limitation with say Photoimpact by creating a plain black background image the size of your original photo, then reducing your original image by 15% all round and merging it centered onto the black image. Save that new image and use it in your PictureShow. That way you'd only be losing the sides of the black background.) This would be very time consuming though and you'd need to decide whether it's worth all the effort.
Hopefully someone else on the board can offer a better answer.
Good luck
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tdew
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I was thinking of using Photo Impact too.
There's an option to "EXPAND CANVAS" - in believe it's under Format in Photo Impact 8. You can select which sides you want to expand - or all sides evenly. Whatever canvas color you've already got selected is what will show up. You could set up the slide show and see which pictures REALLY needed to be fixed - those that were missing heads and such. Then you could do a batch correct on those and expand all sides.
Terry
There's an option to "EXPAND CANVAS" - in believe it's under Format in Photo Impact 8. You can select which sides you want to expand - or all sides evenly. Whatever canvas color you've already got selected is what will show up. You could set up the slide show and see which pictures REALLY needed to be fixed - those that were missing heads and such. Then you could do a batch correct on those and expand all sides.
Terry