TV Safe Question

[Dan Riley]

That’s totally your call and your client’s call.
There is no “title safe police” out there.
In my experience you can go way below the title safe box
and be fine. Just experiment with various TVs and monitors
to see what’s safe to you.

If you watch CNN, that crawl at the bottom of the screen
is WAY out of title safe and yet most TVs are fine with it,
but some, like an older 13 inch Sony set I’ve got,
it can barely see that crawl. Of course, the new LCD TVs,
they see the entire raster. And remember that web video
you make as quicktimes, that box shows the entire raster as well.

Dan

[Aaron Neitz]

Yeah, safe areas are increasingly subject to suspicion. Better transmission standards, better quality televisions…. 9 times out of 10 I wouldn’t sweat titles slipping out of title safe a bit.

[Max Frank]

Thank you gents – that was most helpful.

Wayne

2DP G5, 3.5GB RAM, FCP HD

[Tony]

Just understand if the one tv your paying client is watching happens to cut off the type and they jump and downing screaming about out it you will have no one to blame but yourself.

So to be completely safe use the safe title as your guidelines but fudging it a bit is acceptable as long as you are “safe” with any consequences.

Tony Salgado

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[tony salgado] ”
Just understand if the one tv your paying client is watching happens to cut off the type…”

Problem is, even with the so-called “SAFE AREA” followed, the clinets can always seem to FIND a creaky old tube-set SOMEWHERE (Aunt Bessie’s house?) that will still cut off the disclaimers.

(Hey, that’s not all BAD to the client, IS it?)