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screen capture
I have captured a minute of screen footage (Internet Explorer mainly) using Windows Media Encoder with the settings set for PAL 720×576. I imported this into PremPro but it important parts lay outside of the safe margins.
Do the safe margins really matter? What are they for?
And, how can I adjust the footage/dimensions to sit within the margins? -
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The safe margins matter if your footage is played on a tube television. In that case what is outside of the margins won’t be seen on the screen. Older televisions can display less of the safe area than new ones but you still need it. Plasma / LCD screen are usually pretty good at displaying most of it.
The part in between the outside and inside lines can be used for non critical parts of your footage, mostly anything but text / titles)
For screen captures, you can simply zoom out of the capture until you see a black border outside the safe areas, using the “motion” settings.
Cheers,
Vince
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Safe margins are there for TV broadcast. TVs are ‘overscan’ so some of the image (outside the safe area margins) won’t display on a TV. If you’re planning to use the video only on a computer, it should be fine as is. Most projectors too allow you to do ‘underscan’ so you can see the full image. But if you’re intending to show the video on a TV screen, you’d need to adjust it to fit within the margins. The easiest way to do that is to click on the video in the preview monitor, and drag one of the handles inward, which should shrink the entire picture uniformly. Drag it to fit the safe area, and you’ll see the whole picture on the TV, on a computer screen you’ll have a black border around the outside of the image.
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The part the images normally covered by the frame of a TV are outside the “Safe Area”.
In other words, if you use DV presets in Premiere, all the image inside the Safe Area will normally be included in the result of your editing, when seen on a TV.
If important parts of your imported screen captures are outside the Safe Area, you will have to down-size the frames by using the “Scale” effect of Premiere.
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I cannot see the handles when I click on the image. How do I adjust/move the image?
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-please ignore the above post-
If there a way to put this into effect on multiple items in the timeline?
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Yes, you can do what is called “nesting”. You copy an entire track (after you are done with your editing), and paste it into a new sequence, then apply the “Scale” effect to the entire sequence.
Cheers,
Vince
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Another question…
I’ve been respectful of the safe margins as I figure 99% of my viewers will watch the video on TV….but…for the remainder who might be watching on the PC, will the shots look funky when the screen goes from 100% to my 92% zoom I used to make sure the shot made the safe margins?Thanks for experienced advice…
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Here’s what you could do… I made you a frame in Photoshop that should fit over your footage and cover the safe margins. Just put it in the top track in the entire timeline if you are worried about changes in the safe margins on a PC.
Download here: https://www.kaptis.com/media/web/Safe Margin Frame.psd
What you see in your preview window (including the safe margin area) is what you will see in a media player.
Cheers,
Vince
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Opps, make sure you copy the entire link and paste it, I should have put underscores in there…
Vince
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