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What of those TV Safe Margins?
I’ve got 16:9 HDV (shot on a Sony HVR camera) that I want to put up on the internet – on youtube and as a xvid torrent (so people can burn it onto dvd and watch on their tvs). When I do a simple Burn DVD on PP 2.0, and then watch the DVD on my TV, it cuts the sides off (corresponding to the outside Safe Margin in PP2.0). But if I watch the same DVD on computer, I see the entire frame (i.e., no safe margins).
I realize that I’ll be exporting/compressing with something other than PP’s Burn DVD option once I’m done editing, but it would be good to know how much frame will show up on the final product while I’m editing. I want my video to be formatted like an episode of network TV — so what do I do? I imagine there must be a pretty common approach to this… let me know thanks!
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[RamJet3000] “but it would be good to know how much frame will show up on the final product while I’m editing”
There is no way to know for sure (every TV is different)…that’s why we use action and title safe margins.
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[mike velte] “that’s why we use action and title safe margins”
Could you please explain how you use action and title safe margins? Thanks! -
Sorry, I now realize you don’t “use them” beyond noting the margins. But my problem is that my video is going up on the Internet, where the full frame will be seen, BUT may also be burned to DVD and watched on a TV set, where the action & title safe margins come into play.
Thing is, there’s a few shots that have garbage in the overscan area, so is there anything I can do to have a consistent view of only inside the action safe margin on both Internet and TV?
I figure the easier answer is matte black bars on the overscan areas, which would work, but would also take up space on say youtube by showing up there… Thoughts on a better method??
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In the upper left corner of the Export Settings window is a “Source” tab with a crop tool for use in your web output.
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