fitting within the safe zones

dogwalker wrote on 10/19/2007, 7:42 AM

After editing and encoding my video, and then creating a dvd, I sat to watch it with my family. We all enjoyed it, but I noticed that I had not considered the safe zones. So now I've used track motion to make all the clips fit in the safe zones.

Do we have to do this manually for every project we create, or is there a "magic setting" somewhere?

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 10/19/2007, 9:27 AM

Settings depend form tv to tv. My tv shows everything, so I don't have to take them into account. Do you know you can set the percentages yourself (under preferences, tab video)?

dogwalker wrote on 10/19/2007, 9:50 AM

Yes, thanks, and good point about the televisions. My television happens to line up with the default VMS settings, so I can just use those. Thanks again.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 10/19/2007, 1:23 PM

Safe zone sizes become a problem when you are doing a project for someone else and you do not know what they are going to watch it on. If you use the safest procedure whicih is the largest safe zone then your titles etc will look somewhat squashed to the center to some people. What do most of you use in these circumstances?

Chienworks wrote on 10/19/2007, 2:32 PM

Actually, the best thing to do is to not mess with safe zones and track motion (or cropping) at all while editing. Leave that completely alone. What you need to do is while shooting with your camera, make sure that anything interesting is kept closer to the middle of the frame rather than closer to the edges. That way, no matter what device it's show on, the image will fill the screen, and anything important won't be cut off.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 10/20/2007, 10:48 AM

But for titling and graphics........