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Posted by Geena Phillips on 01/24/07 19:26
EASTVANTRADING wrote:
> Re: Help needed. DVD playback on TV warped and distorted
>
> Hi there,
>
> Here's hoping you experts can help me out. I am trying to make a
> video sequence out of black and white photographic stills, each
> transitioned by fade out/in. I have had success in making a file that
> plays back on the computer and monitor.
>
> The problem is, when I make a DVD of this sequence and play it back on
> a DVD player to a TV, the image becomes distorted: the bottom half of
> the image bulges, stretches out towards the left and right, as if one
> took the two bottom corners and pulled them outwards and then back in.
> One can see the pushing-pulling effect in motion through the duration
> of the image. It looks as if the bottom half is underwater or is viewed
> through a fisheye lens. It is driving me crazy!
>
> -The file plays fine on the PC/Mac, both from DVD and hard drive on a
> monitor.
> -If I activate an onscreen menu from the DVD player (not a DVD menu),
> over the distorted video, it too becomes distorted.
> -My commercial DVDs play fine
>
> I have:
> -Corrected for aspect ratio of the pixels & tried without correction as
> well (square vs. rectangular)
> -Tried a huge range of different image resolutions to start
> -used TIFF and JPEGs
>
> Made the video on:
> Different computers MAC/PC, Final Cut/Ulead
> -I even tried using a slide show program that output to DVD
> -Two different DVD authoring programs
> -Played back through 2 DVD players, 2 TVs
>
> Possible things I haven't tried:
> Using different media (I used FUJI DVD-R)
> Using a third DVD player (the 2 I used were Toshiba, old & new)
>
> Does anyone have any advice, or know what's going on here? I'm
> afraid I maybe missed something really simple. Any help would be
> appreciated!
Evan,
Have you tried adjusting the settings on your TV set?
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