Comments in TV Safe Viewing Area

[vitesse1968]

When creating DVDs I've found that setting the screen area to 90% usefully gets all the image inside my TV safe viewing area (i.e. image not cut off around the edges).

I want to get the Comments (in my case the image file name) to also show in the safe viewing area but frustratingly the title can't be seen at the top of the TV screen. If I use 100% screen area then the title is overlaid on the image which is chopped off anyway around the edges, and 90% setting results in title appearing outside the image but then the title is chopped off, although the full image area can be seen.

Does anyone know if there are any tricks to get around this?.... manually adding file names to my images in Photoshop is too labour intensive! If there is no solution can I submit a feature request for a future release?

[Ken Cox]

vitesse1968

welcome to the forum

many of us has stuggled with the comments -- but the solution was there all the time

SEE

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=1906

ken

[vitesse1968]

Many thanks Ken.... I'll search the forum archives more thoroughly in future!

I was trying to use titles at the top and had given up on the line spacing trick before I read those posts. I ended up positioning text at the bottom, used 80% of the screen, 16 pt font and 35 pixel line spacing offset.... perfect for me!

Steve

[Ken Cox]

steve

you can likely get away with 90 - 95 % screen size -- this will generally get rid of borders and the resulting "vertical jaggies"

when placing the comments text run your screen at 1024 x 768 -- draw vert and horizontal centre cheat marks on your monitor case and experiment for the sweet spot to place your comments-- your might have to diddle the placemaent so use dvd-rw disks to experiment to see how your show looks on the tv screen

some experimentation takes time but the extra time will give you a better looking show

good luck

ken