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TV cuts top and bottom off
Hello,
Im working on a project, but I’m having a problem. I’m making a DVD with lots of different commercials. Some of them are 16:9, some are 4:3. Some are letterboxed, some not, etc.
Every clip should be all over the screen, so I dont want any black bars on top and bottom. Exept for the 4:3 video’s and the black bars on the sides.
I cut off the black bars with Quicktime and then scale it up to 720 x 576.
I put the clips on a dvd with DVD Studio Pro.
When I play it on the Mac it looks good, but when I play it on TV, it cuts some of the top and bottom off. Am I doing something wrong? Or is its the TV or DVD player?Thanks!
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3 Replies
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I just tested it on an other TV with a different DVD player and there it looked good. So maybe it was just the TV? It is an CRT TV, could that be reason? Because the other one I tested it on, which gave a good image, is a flatscreen.
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Dear Meijer,
You are towards right direction playing on different hardware.
Your problem is related to aspect ratio. There are TVs in the market that have sub-standard quality. The screens are not actually 4:3 or 16:9. Some go out of “safe area”. So if you ever want to check/test a video, do it on professional monitor only.
As far as conversion is concerned, it decreases the quality of video.
Regards
Junaid
Technical Coordinator -
Well thanks for your nice reply pff.
I indeed don’t mind the pillarboxing, but I DO mind letterboxing. I want to cut those off, not the bars on the sides. The clips I have already have black bars on them. So it looks like I already made a choice. No letterboxing. Pillarboxing is ok.
I just wondered if I did something wrong, because on an old TV it cuts some of and not on a flatscreen.
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