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Bizarre behavior of video on DVD
I created a video in Premiere Pro CC on a Windows 7 64-bit computer. It’s built from very good quality video. It was exported with Windows Media, no audio, NTSC DV Widescreen at 720×480.
This is for a DVD that will run in a loop at a trade show. Let my boss explain what problem he’s seeing:
“2. On the MT-25 video, there is still an issue with the clip not displaying the entire video on the screen. This is curious because when I play the clip from the I:drive on my computer, it is OK, and when I play the DVD disc on my computer, it is also OK. But, when I play this clip from the DVD on a traditional DVD player attached to a television, it cuts off about 25 to 35% of the video. In fact, when it plays on the traditional DVD player, the logo banner is over half cut off because of this issue.”
Can anyone suggest a fix for this? I need to burn a new DVD (using Windows DVD Maker) as soon as I can. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Older, and many current televisions cut off a portion of the video picture. This area is is an overscan area, and is better explained here –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area_(television)
You compensate for this overscan area by adhering to ‘Safe Margins’ in Premiere, keeping all graphics and such within the ‘Title Safe’ area. Generally, anything that is outside the ‘Action Safe’ area will not display on a television. Computer monitors do not have an overscan area, which is why the DVD and files play fine on a computer.
To display these Safe Margins, click the Settings button at the top right of the Project monitor and choose Safe Margins. You can also add a Safe Margins toggle button below the Project if you’d like to.
Our quick and dirty method of preparing a timeline that wasn’t shot or edited to compensate for the Safe Margins, is to nest the entire timeline, then scale that nest down to be just at the Action Safe margin.
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Does this issue also occur on another dvd player and tv?
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