Hi Tom -

This is not an uncommon thing. Play it on a different player/TV setup & you'll probably find that it displays differently.

If you're talking about a DVD/BR, you'll be able to minimise your image "loss" by changing setting on your player &/or TV.

If you're using the slideshow templates, they ignore the TV safe zone completely.

If you can't fix it be changing settings, you could:
1. Produce your slideshow
2. Insert the produced video & resize it to fit within the TV safe zone
3. Burn your disc or produce again

Cheers - Tony
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I make slide shows all the time with hundreds of photos, titles, transitions. No quick solution. If you want it in the TV zone, never use any wizards, and edit each photo one at a time. I keep low titles just a bit above the bottom of the safe zone line. Sounds like a lot, but when you get your rhythm going, it goes quickly. And your end result will be exactly what you want.... 4:3 or 16:9. Most of the people where I live that end up with one of my projects still do not have the new digital TV's still.... so I have to use TV Safe Zone all the time.... But as a general rule for me anyway, if it is in the safe zone all of it will show.

I have found even with that, even some older non digital TV's, the video will still be off at the bottom or sides a bit... but the majority will be OK. __________________________________________
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Thanks for reply fellas. What a shame that such a user friendly program like this one hasn't helped us with this problem. Maybe in the next version.
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Tom -

Really, I don't think this is a problem limited to PD at all. There are just so many configurations of TVs/disc players/media players.

I've found similar "issues", with other editing software, making discs & producing videos to be played on different player/TV set-ups.

If you know what the particular player/TV does with your video - i.e. how much of the edge is "lost", you can work around it by careful cropping of images... or using the method I described above.

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What would be nice, if the TV manufacturers would get off of the old fashioned idea that you must over scan a TV screen because the public would be upset if they saw any black around the edges of the TV screen.

How do they explain Letter box or Window box that so many broadcasters do now with HD TV. Every time there is an old movie in 4:3 format, what do they do? They put the 4:3 image in the middle of the screen with black bars on both sides of the picture.

If you have a 4:3 TV set, you get black bars on the top and bottom of the picture for 16:9 content.

I thought that with Digital Television, they would exactly fit the screen. Not so!

It is done with computer monitors, why not TV screens? Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Yep... the problem is with TV manufacturers..... not PD... __________________________________________
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Try the free "Image Cropper from Darkwood Studios. You can do batch resizing to fit the TV safe zone for 16 by 9 or 4 by 3.

If all your images are landscape, then you can do them all at once. If some of them are portrat, you have to do those separately.

Basically the program resizes the images and puts a frame around them. You can chose the color. Play with it so you just get a hint of the frame color in the final display. .
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