Re: IDVD question

2008-11-22 Thread Andrew Schox
Thanks guys for all this information. I will experiment and see how things can be improved. Cheers, Andrew On 22/11/08 3:48 PM, Ronda Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen, Most TV's are set by the Manufacturer to use Overscan. ³Overscan, The portion of a video image that lies outside

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-21 Thread Stephen Chape
I reckon it must have something to do with the TV. I had this problem with my Widescreen CRT using an SD Set Top Box. I was never able to resolve it. Once I replaced it with a Panasonic LCD with built in HD tuner, the problem vanished. I never found out what caused it. Sorry this is probably

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stephen, Most TV's are set by the Manufacturer to use Overscan. “Overscan, The portion of a video image that lies outside a TV's visible screen area. The amount of overscan varies from model to model, but typically ranges between 5% and 10% or the total image. Some recent TVs with

IDVD question

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Schox
Hi Wamuggers, I've done a few little things in iMovie, and all seems well (although I'm no Spielberg). However, when I burn them with iDVD, there seems to be some cropping going on when I play it on a DVD player (whether I do the wide screen or standard). If I save these movies to movies files

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Howells
On 20/11/2008, at 9:02 PM, Andrew Schox wrote: Hi Wamuggers, I've done a few little things in iMovie, and all seems well (although I'm no Spielberg). However, when I burn them with iDVD, there seems to be some cropping going on when I play it on a DVD player (whether I do the wide

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Schox
Bob, So on your TV screen that you are watching the DVD on, do you watch digital TV or just analogue TV . I've tried both, including an old CRT TV, and a new 60 inch Plasma. I've also tried it on different DVD players. If you watch digital TV what is the picture like by comparison with an

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Doyle
The old TV safe area strikes again! Here is the first link that came up on a search. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25670?viewlocale=en_US Hope this helps. Paul Doyle On 20/11/2008, at 11:56 PM, Andrew Schox wrote: Bob, So on your TV screen that you are watching the DVD on, do you watch

Re: IDVD question

2008-11-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Andrew, Bob Paul, I am presuming that Andrew is using iMovie '08 iDVD '08. If so this Apple document is more up to date with burning a DVD with a TV safe area. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1092 Cheers, Ronni On 21/11/2008, at 8:36 AM, Paul Doyle wrote: The old TV safe area strikes

iDVD Question

2006-01-31 Thread McCallum Malcolm
Hi everyone, I am at my son's house and we are trying to get his iDvd program to burn a FCP project to an external firewire DVD burner. Every time he attempts to do this his CD tray comes. out . How do we select from idvd an external burner please. He has also forgotten his WAMUG login

Re: iDVD Question

2006-01-31 Thread wyvern
hi, This might sound silly and might have nothing to do with your problem since i use toast and not iDVD BUT... i found when trying to burn to external burner that things would go wrong if i started with the drawer closed. If the drawer was open when i hit 'burn' then it would ask me to

Re: iDVD Question

2006-01-31 Thread McCallum Malcolm
We will try that suggestion Thanks Mac On 31/01/2006, at 3:56 PM, wyvern wrote: hi, This might sound silly and might have nothing to do with your problem since i use toast and not iDVD BUT... i found when trying to burn to external burner that things would go wrong if i started with the