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Television Safe Area
Is there any easy way to rescale an entire project to safely fit action/content for television viewing? Does Premiere have the ability to automatically rescale the entire project for television? Also, does Encore have the ability to re-scale to television when building the dvd?
Sorry, I’m sure this has come up before, but haven’t been able to find anything on it. I dread rescaleing everything using the safe area markers.
Thanks,
Keith -
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Hello,
At what size is your current project? Is it a standard Ntsc/Pal project resolution?
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Standard NTSC, 720×480.
Thanks,
Keith -
I guess if you really want, you can create a new sequence and then crop your project sequence into it and scale it that way, BUT… typically, people don’t do that! When taping, always keep in mind there will be some “safe margins” and “safe title” areas. One of the reasons why people should not rescale is because not all TV is made the same viewable size either! How about HD nowadays? What if someone decide to play it from the projector? Just some thoughts.
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Thanks Perry… good thoughts. The exported avi in question will play fine via a projector. It would be nice if Premiere would or could have a “for television” export option that would re-scale the entire project taking general television overscans into some account. Then it would just be a matter of rendering-exporting to the desired format. Looks like I’ll be re-doing the project with the safe area markers in the preview window. Which also means I’ll have to re-do any position keyed frames…. sigh.
Thanks,
Keith -
Perry has it right – the only way to globally resize your project from head to tail is to nest it into a new sequence, and apply motion settings to the nested sequence clip.
Alternatively, if you export via Adobe Media Encoder, it has crop settings; I haven’t checked recently, but perhaps it might allow you to shrink down the source while preserving a 720*480 output.
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