IDVD and Panasonic HDC-HS200 Camcorder

I have just bought a Panasonic HDC-HS200 camcorder and recorded some clips of the kids, transferred it to iMovie09, edited it and shared via iDVD, then burned a DVD - however when I play the DVD there are a small portion, on both right and left side missing - it fills up the TV screen, however something is missing - can anyone help

sounds like you messed up the settings somewhere along the line ... but as I noted, this is not an iMovie or iDVD forum so who the heck knows what setting it was and where to look to fix it? unfortunately I don't ... anyone got some iDVD / iMovie skills and want to help our poster?
perhaps try posting in the right forum?
iMovie forum is here: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141
iDVD forum is here: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=128
cheers
Andy

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