Perhaps you have missed it. This section of the forum is for PowerDirector 13; you said you have PD 11.

I would suggest that you make a not in this forum that you have created a new topic in PD 11. Copy and paste this post there.

Some posters may have a lot of knowledge on PD 11 but never visit PD 13. Always check to make sure that your PD 11 is up to date. There may have been enough changes in PD 13 from PD 11 that people will say that they don''t have the problem without noticing that there are two different versions involved. .
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Good point, thanks and sorted.
I was guessing that DVD Burning is pretty much common across more recent PD versions when I posted. CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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Took your advice Stevek but no responses.

Since the standard Windows DVD Maker is easy to use and does a first class job I will have to stick with it instead of using the PD11 burn facility. The only downside is that I have to Produce at the MPEG2 for DVD's whereas I usually Produce at MP4 HD. Still I can do both I guess.

Thanks for trying. CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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Go back to one of your projects and check to see if you incorrectly set 16x9 or 4x3. That would produce a flag to set the created video correctly. This would explain the fat or skinny people you see on your played dvd. You need to set it and see to it that it is correct before you go to create disc.

Thanks for your reply.

This is something that I would normally check and I always use 16:9. As I mentioned the Produce played correctly on the pc. Rather than 'misshapen' eg fat or thin, it was that the video was (how can I say) magnified such that it did not fit the screen so the extremities were lost.

Next time I Produce I will try a burn using PD11 just to see if it was a one off. It was satisfactorily burned using the MS DVD Maker.

Cheers Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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Assuming that your video source are really 16x9 widescreen pal and you selected pal 25fps in preferences/general then When you go to burn the disc. Double check that you also set it to widescreen 16x9. See the attached. There are 3 different things to checks. You might have 4x3 source video and incorrectly chose 16x9. I bring this up because my earlier Movie Maker is 4x3 from what I used in the past.

Thanks again for taking time out ... but all of my settings seem to check out correct. I have used PD11 on 16:9 for DVD making 20-30 times at least since I installed it. The DVD that I produced using Windows DVD Maker was nearly 7GB and 2 hours long! The final result was good on a 32" TV but there must have been some serious compression to burn on one DVD. It was necessary for me to burn 2xDVD with PD11, unfortunately with the result that I have mentioned.

Out of interest I also started 'video' using Movie Maker and then progressed to PD. I love PD, it is easy to use and has many good features. I also use Lightworks x64 on occasion ... seriously complex but powerful. PD is much more user friendly for my ageing grey matter!

Next time I tackle a DVD burn I will recheck all the settings in PD and if they are correct then will do a reinstall or just maybe invest in their latest software release ...

Cheers Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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I get varied playback results on DVDs, and it can be annoying. DVD players can have 4:3/16:9 settings, as well as TVs. Source footage can be both, too. I burn a DVD from 4:3 VHS video, and it plays with black bars on 1 TV, and magnified on another. Double-check your settings everywhere, even then they can play differently on different setups. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Hei Barry ... thanks for taking time out.

I am quite sure that all my settings are correct, PD11, TV, DVD player etc. I will await the 'next project' and report here if I still experience problems ... might simply have beena hiccup in the system on this particular burn, though as I stated the MS burner went correctly.

Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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