Video DVDs - Cut of image on TVs

[Bauzi]

Hey there,

I often make some dvds for amv screenings on various events. Once again I'm makeing a neat amv dvd with fancy menu in DVD Lab Pro 2. So far the dvd works fine on laptop when I play it with VLC or KMP. On hardware dvd players I always run into an issue: The whole dvd videos are always zoomed by... around 10%. This cuts of my menu navigation buttons, titles and credits in videos. That's pretty bad, because I want to distribute the dvds on LAN parties (of course for free over file shareing) too and I might have to play this dvd on a dvd player this Friday.

I don't really know what I do wrong. All my dvd videos have these MPEG-2 settings and are encoded in TMPEG:
720x576 (16:9 display) the menu is 4:3 though...
PAL
25fps
Proggressive

uhm... I don't know which settings are important to mention so here is the TMPEG project file with the settings for one video converting job:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fuvupm
All videos on the dvd have the same attributes.


I test the dvds on my 4:3 tele. This summer I also tested on a 4:3 dvd->beamer combo. There was the same cut of image effect.


btw.:
Does anybody know a way to throw multiple movies with the same attributes into one movie container in DVDLab 2 ? I would like to throw in the videos into one movie container and set chapters instead of using multiple movie containers. That's a bad thing because it prevents navigating with chapters while playing back the dvd.

I know that I could convert all the videos into one gigant video file, but seriously: That's too much effort and not worth wasteing my time (I ran into various avisynth visualisation errors when I tried it with a script).

[Scintilla]

You sure it's not just overscan from the TV set/projector? This is why video editing programs have title-safe/action-safe zone overlays, so you can avoid putting anything too important too close to the edges of the image.

[Bauzi]

You sure it's not just overscan from the TV set/projector? This is why video editing programs have title-safe/action-safe zone overlays, so you can avoid putting anything too important too close to the edges of the image.

Yeah I know these areas from working with After Effects, but it's sad that it the cut off happens. So much space is wasted.

..., but what is overscan and how can I avoid/disable it?

[Zarxrax]

Resize your video to a smaller resolution and add black borders.

[Bauzi]

Hell no! This means that I retreat from a stupid problem just for the sake of something dumb. That's not a solution my eyes. The dvd would look dumb on usual systems without overscan.

I better remake the dvd menues and leave it by that.

[Bakadeshi]

Hell no! This means that I retreat from a stupid problem just for the sake of something dumb. That's not a solution my eyes. The dvd would look dumb on usual systems without overscan.

I better remake the dvd menues and leave it by that.

Thats pretty much all you can do. Thats why some older DVDs had black borders around them (I can think of a few ghibli titles, like spirited away that had this)
that they probably stopped doing because of HDTVs.