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Off-Central DVD Playback – Help?
Hello,
This is my first post, so please forgive me if it should have gone elsewhere.Basically, I’m looking for some help to an issue that has cropped up as of late.
I’ve just finished shooting and editing footage of a Dance Festival for a client on my Canon HV20. I’ve rendered it with Vegas using the MainConcept MPEG2 format to DVD Architect to burn as a downscaled 16:9 DVD.
Having completed the render and playing the DVD back on a standalone player, I’ve found that the DVD plays slightly to the left, so credits and introductory titles are not central, which, has gone unnoticed by the client but has been irritating me since the moment I saw it and I can’t sign off the product until I’ve fixed the problem.
Now, the bizarre thing is it plays perfectly on computer hardware, which leaves me assuming it has something to do with the way the DVD Player is trying to letterbox the footage so it can play on 4:3 televisions?
Is this something I can fix by tweaking my settings, or is this just the idiosyncratic world of standalone DVD players and TV’s?
Any help appreciated,
Sam Nicholls, Studio8 Media -
3 Replies
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Switch the Preview Window in Vegas from Safe Areas mode to Grid mode and check your titles for proper centering there.
If they’re OK there, then it’s the DVD player or the TV set that’s at fault.
My guess is that it’s the TV set, especially of it’s an older model.
Try it on a different DVD player/TV set.
Also try a different DVD that you know is OK. -
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the reply, my first instinct was to check with the grid if everything was in the correct place and sadly it was – Would have been nice if it was simple fix.Unfortunately every 4:3 set I’ve tried the DVD on has played it like this, however, I did come across a “Panoramic 16:9” television that played it perfectly, so it looks like it is the way that 4:3 DVD Players are trying to letterbox the DVD to play it anamorphically (As the footage is 16:9).
Is there are way I can overcome this with a different render setting?
I have tried many but have had no luck so far, I just find it such an odd problem seeing as it is pretty much guaranteed to occur on a 4:3 set. I can’t just crop the video to 4:3 either as the footage has to be widescreen to see everything in the frame.Any further ideas appreciated,
Sam Nicholls, Studio8 Media -
I’m guessing this is just how 4:3 televisions are interpreting the footage then?
Sam Nicholls, Studio8 Media
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