Widescreen DVD's

Guys
Hope you can help
I've created a widescreen DVD project to help with a local charity and have had people report back that the sides/top/bottom are being chopped off. I've read somewhere this is due to the DVD not being intelligent enough to know which to use widescreen/ordinary and wondered how I go about fixing this?
Thanks!
Daz

Try putting the widescreen movie file inside an iDVD slideshow, the kind created by the "+" button at the bottom. That will let you scale the movie to the TV safe area like you can with stills.
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You need to do it the other way - you need to stretch the letterboxed footage's height to the True Widescreen's dimension, which btw is refered to as Anamorphic. Then you need to tell the system that it is anamorphic footage (there's a checkbox for this in the properties window).
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TA26788 I only want my widescreen iDvd to behave like a regular widescreen DVD.

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