Video studio Pro x3

[King Cow]

Hello,
I am trying to burn a movie in DVD factory Pro 2010. I captured live TV made my edits and set the chapters. I burned the DVD fine, but it was not in full screen. I have these settings, NTSC,mpeg-2, video size 720*480. These are all grayed out in factory pro. This only gives me a small letter box of a picture. What I knead to know is how to change this. What settings do I have to have?
Thanks King Cow

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

The resolution you have, 720x480 is the correct frame size for NTSC area. Since this only produces a small letterbox, are you viewing this on your computer or TV? What resolutions are they? That resolution should still fill the screen on large monitors and televisions. The quality may not be that great, but should not show up as a small letter box.

1. Are your project settings 4:3 or 16:9? The latter being a widescreen format. What are the properties of your video file? Right-click on it (in the time-line or library of VS X3) select properties and post them here.

2. Have you by chance placed the video on an overlay track and not resized it or had it Fit to Screen?

The above are settings to check in VS X3, before you would use DVD Factory 2010. There is a place for you to check and set your settings in DVD Factory 2010. It would be one of the last steps. The settings menu is located along the right edge. You need to hover your mouse over it, then it will slide open. It's a real PITA to work with.

Are you aware of the free replacement of DVD MovieFactory 7SE? This is Corel's replacement for DVD Factory 2010, which not many like at all, including myself. DVD MovieFactory 7SE, is easier to work with, and if you have used one of the older versions of VS, you will feel much more at home with it, as it resembles the burn module of those earlier versions. I recommend you download and install it.

[King Cow]

Hello,
The DVD movies are being played on TV. I have a 42" HDTV, and a 32" regular TV. I don't know the resolutions. I am using 16:9. As you can see from the capture picture I am on the video track and have not changed any setting. What I said earlier is what I have in DVD factory pro. They are grayed out. I down loaded the patch and installed. Just so you know I am using the trial VS of this software. The movies that I am burning are captured from live TV. I am coming from cable box to computer. It does not look like this patch gave me the 7E program that you were talking about.
King Cow

I've resized the image, cropping out the parts that are not needed. Please keep your image sizes to no larger than 800pxs on it's largest side.
Ron P.
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[Ken Berry]

This post from me has nothing to do with your specific problem, but with your second image. It is just far too wide. I have a full 1920 x 1080 24 inch monitor, but the second photo is too wide for it to display even fully on my monitor. Yet the points of interest in it go really only out to the right hand side of the Properties box. I am sure many more users will find your image even larger. So really what I am asking you and all users who post images, to keep them reasonably small, and only post the relevant parts of any screen capture. In other words, use the Capture Free Rectangle or equivalent tool in your capture program or else delete all unnecessary bits using image editing software.

EDIT: The size of the image was subsequently reduced...

[Ron P.]

If you're using the trial version of VS X3, you will not be able to download DVD MF7 SE. It is only for those that have purchased and registered it with Corel. Which television set are you capturing from, the hi-def (42") or the standard-def (32" regular)? It would appear the latter one, given the video properties you posted. Unless I'm still not on the same page as you concerning the program you're using to capture. So to clarify that for me, are you capturing your video using:
1. VS Pro X3 (trial)
2. DVD Factory 2010
3. Corel Digital Studio (which has DVD Factory Pro 2010, Videostudio 2010)

With above #1, I know you can choose what format you want to capture to. If you're capturing from your larger, hi-def TV, then I would choose in the Capture Step, under Source, either Digital TV source, or HDV source. I don't have a digital or HDV source to check further with this. Selecting one of those may provide more or different choices when you click the Option button.

[King Cow]

Hello,
Sorry about the size of the captures, it won't happen again. I get the movies from the DVR from cable on the 32" standard TV. From the TV to the computer in video studio pro v3 which is on a trial bases to see if I can get this to work before I spend $50. plus dollars. Next I say create disk and DVD factory 2010 pro pops up. I create the chapters and then burn to disk. This operation works fine except the size of the picture is a letter box type. There has has to be something that I am missing. Like I said everything else works fine.
King Cow