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How to render for action safe zones for quicktime player
I’ve finished a video that I’ve made to be played on quicktime player. However, when I play the video on the player, it is showing the video outside of the action safe zones from final cut. I’ve used filters and moved images in the frame so it is showing up really bad. How can I render the video to only show what is inside the action safe zones? Thanks.
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The easiest way to achieve what you want is to apply a crop to all four sides of every shot on your timeline before exporting. Load one shot into the viewer by double-clicking on it–then, in the motion tab, set the proper crop to all four sides of each shot. Now copy that shot and paste the crop attributes to all other shots in the timeline. Now rerender and export.
FYI, video exports are all “fullframe” — action safe and title safe are just convenient tools to give the editor an idea of what might be cut off on a TV. Its a good idea to always have your canvas set to “fit all” so you can see what’s really there, because what’s outside of action safe is there and may show on some TVs, especially modern flat panles and projectors.
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There is also a crop feature in Compressor. This way you won’t have a black band around the sides.
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What settings do i put if i want to crop a video to action safe, and scale it down afterwards?
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Cropping from within final cut will cause a black band. I ended up cropping in compressor (I’m in SD 4:3, so I crop in ratio- 4 pixels on each side, 3 pixels up and 3 down; cropped all the way to 24:18). But i’m faced with this blasted problem now- it plays fine in final cut, but i can’t export it without the audio going out of sync. Every setting seems right- all audio at 48khz/16bit.
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