Cutting Off Slide Edges

[rufone419 Profile Private messageWebsite]

I have just finished a show for my son's 5th B-day on Saturday. I set all of the slides to fill screen. When I burned the show to disk, it cuts off the edges of the slides. It looks fine in producer with no cut off. I'm showing it with a projector but it doesn't make any difference the settings on the projector it still cuts it off the edges to the sides? Any ideas? I'm running out of time. Should make any difference if I do fit screen verses fill screen?


Help Please!

Dave

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

If you view the DVD using a player on your computer, are
the sides still cut off ? If not, you are running into the
usual issue with TV's called overscan - that is where part
of the image actually exists outside of the boundaries of
the display and is fairly common (but never the same for
any two TV's just to keep life interesting). I believe the
original reasoning was that it was too difficult to keep the
sweep linear across the entire screen, so they cut off about
10% on each side by letting it scan "past the edges". That
is where the "safe zone" settings come in in producer and
gold (as well as most other video editing programs).

If it is still clipped on your computer, then there may be
a setting in the burning menu that chops it to the "safe zone"
(I'm not sure on that since I usually make it a point to
try and stay away from the edges). Let us know what
you find and if that doesn't solve it, I will see what I can
find in the menus.

mikey

[rufone419 Profile Private messageWebsite]

I will try it in the computer. I'm using a video projector to show it on a screen. I tried 16 /9, 4/3 and 1/1 modes and it did the same on all of them.

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Highly suspicious -- OK, see if this changes it -- from the top menu,
Edit -> Preferences -> Show Defaults (button) what is the scaling
option set to ?? (it is a pulldown menu). I usually have mine set to
"fit to frame" ) That was the only thing I could find that might do
what you are describing.

mikey

[rufone419 Profile Private messageWebsite]

It is set at fit to frame. I tried it on my wifes computer and it is ok sideways but is cutting off top and bottom. Very strange. I think that I might just go back through everything and fit to safe zone. The issue I have is a mask that has monkey's around the edge and it is cutting them off.

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Well, good luck -- you have sort of run off the end of my ideas
since I have not seen that (although, I am still running 1942 - Andy
did find some issues that had to do with masks ?? and 1967 and
even got confirmation back from Photodex they could re-create
the problem (always nice) but I don't think it was the same as this).

mikey