Title Safe Frame problem

I am encountering a problem with the text location in the Viewer and the Canvas when using the Title Safe frame. When the Viewer shows the text in the Title Safe frame, the Canvas shows a few letters are outside the frame. I have decided to use what I see in the Canvas since that reflects what is in the Timeline. Is this what I should use? Why do they show the text in different positions?

Hi Ian: Here is my progress report.
This will bring you up to date on my burning problem. It is a little long but explains how this is a continuing problem that does not seem to have a solution.
Tom wrote to me in reply to my burning problem about size - mainly the size of free space required. I commented about marking i and o for a very short 7 minute sequence, exporting to QT and trying to burn a DVD. Even then I had a 34506 error (which I think is a size issue) and the ususal multiplexing comment. Tom said: “I don’t think iDVD’s that smart. It may hold space for a full disc regardless of your content, which is probably why the write out is so long”. He is certainly right.
I went back to my desktop, selected the QT MOVIE icon and found the size was 9.35 GBs. I then learned that for this movie I had put i and o marks for a 44 minute movie, BUT did not notice that “Self Contained” was checked.
Then I went back to the desktop and found the PROJECT icon that I had saved and this one showed 6 MB. I opened this PROJECT and deleted everything past the 44 minutes, which resulted in a project or sequence size of 3.8 MB. I then exported this to QT MOVIE. It then showed the size to be 5.8 GB – too large to burn on a DVD, if all of it is burned when you click on burn. I have used the i and o approach on some of my other sequences and they burned only the selected portion. Doesn’t iDVD encode the movie and compress and expand it? Tom was right. Putting i and o markers did not reduce the size of the QT movie. Amazing. The guidelines I have read say to select the part of your project you want to export by placing i and o in the project, then export to QT. The entire movie seems to be exported anyway, even though it may burn only part of it. Does this make any sense?
Continuing, I then reduced the size of the PROJECT to 30 minutes. That resulted in a QT movie of 3.8 GB. I still could not burn a DVD.
The part I do not understand is how I was able to burn the first four DVDs. The first one is 1 hr. 13 min. with 468 still photos and 160 movie clips. The second one is 1 hr. 8 min. with 191 still photos and 240 movie clips. The third one is 56 minutes with 116 still photos and 209 movie clips. The fourth one is 53 minutes etc. I had very few problems burning these four DVDs. I cannot burn DVD #5, which is only 44 minutes. Can anyone explain why? Something must be set incorrectly, but I can’t figure out what it is.
As for trying to burn using Disk Utility, I have not been successful. I get to a certain point and get “not enough space”. Could QT be causing the problem? I followed you guidelines, but am not familiar with one part: :"You can then burn it to CD/DVD in Disk Utility just as you would any other disk". Ian, I know little about using Disk Utility. Could you give me more guidelines here?
I now have 40 GB free on my HD, have trashed preferences, rendered both video and audio, mixdown, exported to QT and again tried to burn the 44 minute project, and again the same messsage, that is, 3506 error and multiplexing error.
If you can’t burn an FCE HD project what good is it - even if the main problem is not with FCE HD?
I am also posting this to Tom since he replied to my “Burn Problem” post. Does anyone have a solution? Could iDVD be corrupted? Sorry this is so long. John

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