Croped Video on DVD

[Shobbow]

i have made a video clip in mpeg2 with resolution of 640x480 on Adobe Premier then i cinverted the video to DVD format wtih TeMPG. however, when ii burned it on DVD the video was cropped from the sides on TV. when i try the same video on the computer DVD player, the picture is perfect.

Does anybody have an answer .... please?

[Kedirekin]

TV overscan. Many (probably most) TVs scan the image signal beyond the edges of the screen (all edges - top, bottom and both sides). The amount of overscan varies from TV to TV. I believe the industry has rules for handling overscan. For example, DVD authoring programs define a 'safe area' for placing subtitles to ensure they will by fully displayed on any TV.

Ideally, when you create a video clip you should take overscan into account and make sure everything important appears in the safe area. You may be able to get away with adding a border around your clip. How much border to add depends on your clip and what you want to achieve.

[Dimmer]

By any chance, you didn't specify 1:1 as an output aspect ratio instead of 4:3 in TMPGEnc? Note that source aspect ratio in Advanced settings should be set to 1:1.

[Shobbow]

All that sounds excellent, but the problem is my video file is 3:4 and it plays very well on the screen. is there a program that can change the file size to accomodate the Over Scan problem?!?!? is it possible to do it on Adobe Premier???

Please advise.....