It is not an obscure setting. You are quite right that the video file
specs are identical. The difference is in what the image is. On the first,
you have the source file filling up the entire video frame. In the second,
you have shrunk the source so that the video frame now has black boarders,
with the source in the middle.
Now that you have explained specifically what you are trying to do (take a
Lynda.com video and burn it to DVD for viewing on a TV, rather than a
computer) we can understand your difficulty Those video files were never
intended for viewing on anything but a computer, where you a guaranteed to
be able to view the entire video, (there are no "safe" or "un-safe" areas
for computer video).
As you have found, taking that without any modifications, you've discovered
the wonders of overscan and non-viewable areas on a TV. By scaling the
video down, you are changing the image its self. In effect, you
are losing detail to squish it into fewer pixels so you can have 72 pixels
of black on the sides, and about 64 pixels of black on the top and bottom.
The change in size is not happening in Encore or in the dvd player based on
a setting, but when Premiere exports the video to be encoded. On your tv,
those black pixels on the border are cut off due to overscan.
As far as making things easier for yourself, I would create a project with
2 sequences. Let's call them A and B. Place your source files on Seq A,
and place Seq A onto Seq B. Scale Seq A to 80%. Then you'll render B as
your final video. Now all you have to do is add the various clips to A,
and the'll all be scaled through the sequence nesting. This takes the
manual scaling to only doing it once, but the rendering will have to be
done each time, because Premiere has to squeeze the video into fewer pixels
to display them at 80% size.
--Andrew
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