TV safe area

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TV safe area

why is there a TV safe area that is so small, even on wide screen settings. I don't understand why you can't burn your project to a DVD and have it look like or be close to the same size the project is. In other words I checked the "show TV safe area" and the box showing the area shaded a 1/4 of the screen. It also cuts off parts of videos and pictures from drop zones that can't be moved or resized.

how can I fix this so my TV safe area fits around my project

Am I doing something wrong, and does my ? make sense

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iDVD 7.0.4

Posted on Jun 10, 2009 11:45 PM

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Jun 11, 2009 2:02 AM in response to tomwhi

Hi

As I get it TV-safe area only apply to old time CRT TV-sets where a bit of the picture
is lost (wrapped) due to overscann as standard to all of them.

To ensure that texts and action was visibly one truned on TV-safe area and moved
eg text inside this to secure it's readability.

On Mac or flat screens this should be totally obsolete - they as I understands it
shows 100% of movie area.

Old CRT TV-screens could be adjusted to show 100% and a black frame but this just
applied to that special set and a movie often were to be playable on any TV however
it was adjusted.

Turn it off - If Your movie is not to be playbacked on an old TV-set.

Yours Bengt W

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