TV safe area of a DVD!
One of the things that you have to consider when making a DVD (especially the menu) is the TV safe area. Many older TVs (many new ones as well) don't display the full image. I really figured that out when I hooked up my Mac to a LCD HDTV through DVI to HDMI. I set the TV up as the second display, because if it was the main display, I nearly lost all the Dock and the Menu Bar because of how much the TV wasn't displaying. So when you make a DVD, you really have to make sure that nothing important is on the sides. Thankfully, Apple integrated a feature in iDVD to make sure of that. You can easily access it in the View menu. It is "Show TV safe area". You also get it with "Command - T". At the same place, you can get the "Show Standard Crop Area" feature. This will show you exactly what you will lose when displaying a widescreen movie on a regular TV. You can get it with "Option - Command - T".
4 Comments:
Thanks for the very handy tip, MacGeek.
It doesn't show you exact anything, because every TV has an unique overscan which you can't predict
Lindenguard: You don't know exactly what you'll see on your TV. But the TV safe area is what you are sure to see.
MacGeek
Nice tip! They sure didn't told me this when I was buying mine on the Apple retail stores
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