TV Margin vs Video real view

San_kev · Post by **San_kev** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:37 pm

When I edit/preview a video, the window shows the full image but there's the "MARGIN" or "FRAME" where tells you where the limit of the TV monitor might be, usually cut a bit of the 4 sides of my video when burned to DVD/CD and viewed on my TV, therefore sometimes heads are cut...
Is any way or setting that I can FIT the real size of the videos to the margin of then TV screen so I don't miss any detail of my videos?.

Thank You again.

Sankev

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:55 pm

I think you could do it by zooming-out.... but you would end-up with a black-box (like a letterbox effect) around the video which might show-up on another TV.

The only real solution is to prevent this from happening by not shooting so tightly. The overscan is there for a reason... to allow for tolerance and variation between TVs. The video in the margin is supposed to be there, but it's not supposed to be important.

If your TV is particularly bad, maybe you can adjust it a little. There are usually user-accessible picture height and width adjustments. These might be screwdriver adjustments on the back, or via a remote-control setup button.

San_kev · Post by **San_kev** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:40 pm

DVDDoug wrote:I think you could do it by zooming-out.... but you would end-up with a black-box (like a letterbox effect) around the video which might show-up on another TV.

The only real solution is to prevent this from happening by not shooting so tightly. The overscan is there for a reason... to allow for tolerance and variation between TVs. The video in the margin is supposed to be there, but it's not supposed to be important.

If your TV is particularly bad, maybe you can adjust it a little. There are usually user-accessible picture height and width adjustments. These might be screwdriver adjustments on the back, or via a remote-control setup button.

Thank You for your advise, I'll shoot my videos a bit far.. (not too zoom-in)

Sankev

San_kev · Post by **San_kev** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:50 pm

Hello DVDDoug...

Thank You again, but I found another way.. I can use "distor clip" and FIT my videos to any size and shape I want.

Greetings

Sankev

jbowen28 · Post by **jbowen28** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:04 am

Hello Sankev,

I can use "distor clip" and FIT my videos to any size and shape I want.

Where can I find this program. I would like to use it as well.

Thanks,
Jim

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:29 am

It's part of VS9. When you insert an image into the timeline and you are in the Edit mode, you will have two tabs on the left/top of screen, one labelled Image and the other Attribute. Click on the latter, and you will see a little box with 'Distort Clip' beside it. Click on that and your image will now be shown with nodes around it which you can push or pull to distort or re-size the image.