Picture cut off top and bottom

Roger

Newbie Location: Sydney, Australia Joined: Sep 29, 2008 09:03 Messages: 29 Offline

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Mar 09, 2010 19:52

Hi fellow producers,

I have searched the forums but cant find an answer to my problem, not to say that there isn't one hidden there somewhere.

The problem is the DVD I made plays back perfectly on one player (a basic $99 LG) but on my $800 Panasonic DMR-XW350 the top and bottom of the picture is cut off. This makes a mess of the captions I put on the stills, not to mention some titles I had in the production.

I made short test productions in 4:3 and 16:9 but that makes no difference to the problem.

In all cases everything is inside the TV Safe Zone

I tried every combination of settings on the player and TV (a Panasonic 1080p 32" LCD)

I phoned Panasonic and checked all the setting while the guy led me through them. He then concluded that the problem was caused by the disc, as I have no problems with any commercial discs in this player.
He did not seem impressed when I mentioned the LG player!

Have I missed something in the settings of PD7? I can repeat the production if I can find the right settings.

I have already made 10 copies of this disc to give out at a family reunion on Sunday.

Thanks

Roger

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Mar 09, 2010 21:22

Hi Roger

What type of monitor (TV) are you viewing this through?

I have a Panasonic Viera plasma that has various aspect ratios (4:3, 14:9, 16:9, cinema, widescreen, full screen etc).

All of these work independently to the DVD player.

Good luck
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Roger

Newbie Location: Sydney, Australia Joined: Sep 29, 2008 09:03 Messages: 29 Offline

Mar 09, 2010 22:11

The TV is a Panasonic 32" LCD Viera with HDMI connection. It does not seem to be a function of the aspect ratio. No combination of aspect ratios, player and TV, works.

The first Panasonic guy I spoke to said the problem was because I had not set the player to "Progressive scan". It was set to Auto detect anyhow, and changing to other values did not work either. The second Panasonic guy I spoke to said to have both TV and player in 16:9.

Surely there must be a way to get PD7 to make a DVD that works on one of the most popular TV?DVD combos around.

Roger.

Spartan

Newbie Joined: Dec 03, 2008 21:50 Messages: 29 Offline

Mar 10, 2010 00:52

I had an issue with a DVD of mine not playing correctly and it turned out to be the settings on the DVD player. I had to set the display device to 16:9 and then everything worked fine.

I have never had any issues playing commercial discs on that player.