I created a video with Adobe Premier using all JPEGs (basically just saved a whole powerpoint presentation as JPEGs and imported them to Adobe) because I needed to save a powerpoint to DVD for being played on a traditional DVD player.

When I burned the video produced to DVD and played it on my home TV it doesn't fit. IE, it's not showing the top, bottom, and sides of the pictures... would be a big deal if it was pictures only, but I'm losing some text of the sides...

What settings should I manipulate to make sure the entire JPEG image is captured? Could this have been caused by a program I used to convert the file type before burning?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

3/21/2008 9:26:50 PM

there are better programs that convert straight from PPT to DVD for you without all this hassle

i'd advise searching PPT to DVD and getting one of them.

3/22/2008 1:57:03 AM

^ been there, done that... to no avail :-(

Since I have Premier... I just figured I'd go ahead and use what I have. I'm thinking this must have something to do w/ the aspect ratio settings but I'm just not sure what to change and where. Or, if there's a utility to use when importing JPEGs to define whether they are stretched, fit to window, or kept at original size.

3/23/2008 12:18:21 PM

you already have posted a topic on this, no need for another one

3/23/2008 7:55:49 PM

Well, I posted on PPT to DVD... but not on who to manipulate variables in Adobe specifically... which is why I figured the thread topic would catch different respondents (maybe not?)

3/24/2008 8:14:01 PM

there is a free (or shareware/demo) of a PPT -> AVI converter. Forgot what its called but a quick google will find it.

3/24/2008 8:25:42 PM

your problem is that you're not paying attention to the "TV safe zone"

basically, you WONT have that problem on anything LCD or plasma, etc-- but on older TVs (CRT's) you're going to miss 10-20% of the outer edges. The only way to get around that is plan better with your productions.

in the preview/program window of premiere you'll see a box inside of the video window-- overlayed on the video youre working on. that's the tv safe zone. keep your people's faces inside that zone. (it's an approximate zone, not going to be the same for all TVs)

3/24/2008 9:12:44 PM

^ thanks!

3/26/2008 10:34:11 PM

Quote :

"basically, you WONT have that problem on anything LCD or plasma, etc"

Maybe false. See my thread from long ago, when I went through the same thing this guy is going through:

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=499040

[Edited on March 30, 2008 at 8:08 PM. Reason : ]

3/30/2008 8:07:19 PM