[MacDV] DVD player/TV crops my DVD-R

Mike Swope mike at swopedesign.com
Tue Apr 1 04:56:02 PST 2003


Try TDK, Apple or Sony DVD-R media with the exact same project. Your 
results will likely be different.

James A. Murray wrote:
> I just made my first DVD-R with iDVD.  I am using a TiBook running OS 
> 10.2.1, and iDVD 3.  The disk came out fine, and on the first try, 
> burning to an Imation DVD-R (10 for $15 at OfficeDepot).
> 
> But I am having a couple of problems playing it on my Toshiba SD-3755 
> player.
> 
> 1. It crops the image so much that it truncates the titles that I added 
> in the lower left corner of the iMovie.  [I did not have QT margins 
> clicked in iMovie 3, but this movie was originally edited in iMovie 1, 
> and has been moved to iMovie 2, and now to iMovie 3].
> 
> 2. The player chokes at the same place in the credits each time, and 
> shuts the player off!
> 
> I have tried the disk on a different model Toshiba DVD player, and it 
> does not choke at the credits.  The cropping is still present, but to a 
> lesser extent, on the different model.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I have re-rendered the movie, but 
> won't burn it again until I get some idea what went wrong the first time.
> 
> thanks
> jim
> 
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