How do I get most of my movie within the TV safe area?

Have projects in 4:3 and widescreen and match up the project settings with the correct theme settings in iDVD but a very large amount of the footage in both simply does not appear when played on my TV (actually a Plasma computer screen - no tuner - multi viewing options). The full detail is making it onto the disc as when I play back on a computer it shows fine. When on a TV a very large amount of the picture is lost to the extent where the standard titles from imovie don't all show. As my DVD's are all recorded for viewers to use on TV;s how can I scale the whole of the picture to sit within the the Red TV safe box showing on IDVD?

Generally, you don't. You just keep it all there when filming. If for instance you are asking how to change a 720x480 movie to a 650x400 or so to keep it all in the action safe area, then you would be making a video which is not allowed on a DVD. So you do this at the camera; or, if you are editing in something like Final Cut Pro you can crop and zoom. But then you are blowing up part of the picture, and you will see visual artifacts.
If you have a flat-panel TV, then it has no area it cuts off (called "overscan"). But TVs have a setting to create overscan for various reasons. So look in your TV menus for an option to turn overscan off.
Now, you certainly can scale video and put a black mask around it. But that means that many other people would see the black border with a small picture in the middle. The preferred way is to film properly for a variety of TV sets. TVs all have different amounts of overscan, including no overscan for flat-panel TVs, unless an option to create an artificial overscan.
Jeremy

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