• Adobe After Effects

  video cropped on screen

  Posted by Alister on June 19, 2006 at 8:15 pm

  hi, i did this short video on AE with the size format 720×480. I thought this would work for the average television screen in a DVD format, but when i play it, the entire picture is too large for the screen (on all sides). Does anyone know what i did wrong, and is there anyway i can fix this??
  THank You!

  Rjf E:613 replied 19 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rjf E:613

  June 19, 2006 at 9:31 pm

  It’s too large by how much? if it’s 10 – 20%, my guess is that you didn’t have the title-safe guides on and/or didn’t compensate for this. If you’re unfamiliar with what “title-safe” and “action-safe” areas are, read this:

  https://www2.hawaii.edu/~ghoeffke/video_basics/rules_of_editing1.htm

  You can also view the free tutorial at this link (it is the one that says “Safe zones”)
  https://www.vtc.com/products/ae65adv.htm

  Bottom-line, you’ll usually want the motion that HAS to be viewable to be within these two guides. You can access these guides in After Effects by hitting the apostrophe key on your keyboard.

  If it’s a different issue, please advise… maybe someone else has a pointer.

  rjf

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