This is not uncommon. When creating titles and Pic-in-pic, use the tv safezone feature. This will help to keep things on the screen. Join/SignUp to SeeMyWorldOnVideo. We're PowerDirector Video Editors. Are you a member? - JOIN TODAY!

Hi,

1. What you've experience is normal for a video played on a TV screen.
2. TV's stretch your video and there is a TVsafe area option in Menu Designer and Titles Designer - look for the icon with TV on it.
3. you'll have to live with the problem OR try a suggestion below.

How to get around the problem and retain the full viewing area of your video - what you see when editing and through the view finder?

1. Produce your video to an Mpeg2 file
2. Do NOT add any chapters
3. Locate/bring the *.mpg file back into PD
4. Place the *.mpg into the PiP time-line
5. open PiP Designer
5-1 Locate the TV safe icon - click it
5-2 See the dotted surround of the TV display area
5-3 Stretch the PiP to the max of the TV area.
5-4 Green tick and then proceed to out put the file etc.
5-5 Out put - Produce - mpeg2

You should then out put a video with a black surround which when played on a TV will display the whole screen etc.

6. bring the video back in and add your Chapters etc.

Dafydd

How does Dafydd do it, come up with these workarounds, its amazing

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Thank you a lot Dafydd, I'll give it a try!
Ciao.

Please be aware that this "work around" is a time-consuming effort and the whole project will need rendering.

Additional tip:
4-1 add a black Color Board to the Video Time-line
4-2 Highlight the image in the Video Time-line
4-3 select "Duration"
4-4 Set it to the length of the Video clip
4-4-1 Move the Preview slider to the end and read the time-code to give you the "numbers" you need.
4-5 Using the Color Board is a fraction quicker.

I would NOT recommend adding Chapters at this point as the task of rendering the project should be done separately in this case.

Thank you Barry for your input - you beat me.
Thank you Robert - the problem is exactly what we chatted over a couple of days ago. Sorry, I forgot to mention how to do the work-around.
Thanks Ciao Guiseppe - I hope you're successful.

I have used the solution on short projects only - but it is successful. I would stretch the PiP to slightly beyond the TV safe area.

Dafydd

I think the TV safe area is fixed in PD6, rather than user adjustable. I guess it's fixed at the standard resolution that is selected. So for UK PAL the safe zone would be 720x576.

Most CRT's only display 720x525, so you might have to keep you film well inside the safe zone. And most LCD's use a process called over-scanning that has the same net effect.

Quote: I think the TV safe area is fixed in PD6, rather than user adjustable. I guess it's fixed at the standard resolution that is selected. So for UK PAL the safe zone would be 720x576.

Most CRT's only display 720x525, so you might have to keep you film well inside the safe zone. And most LCD's use a process called over-scanning that has the same net effect.

Hi David, thanks for your input.

The "TV safe area" is just a defined area where text and Pip's for example will display without being "cut off". The PAL video frame size of 720 x576 should not be muddled with the TV safe area.

Video displayed on a TV is stretched to display. A 16:9 DVD is in fact for PAL a 720 x 576 frame size - no different than 4:3. However as a TV stretches the video to suit the elongated/squashed 16:9 displays correctly. Flat screen TV also stretch and extend the video - overscanning and losing video edges. When set on an "auto" display a flat screen TV will lose the peripheral edges of the video.

The aim of the instructions is to ensure the full viewed area is displayed on screen when adding an over-laid video on a black background. By defining the viewable area in this way the editor controls the whole screen viewed on TV.

The instructions given apply to PAL 720x576 and to NTSC 720x480.

The instructions are just a guide and not a "must do".

Dafydd