TV Safe Grid.

blink471

Newbie Joined: Dec 11, 2013 23:20 Messages: 3 Offline

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Feb 15, 2014 02:11

Was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I am having difficulty when producing video and photo clips to play on a 16:9 TV, to show the whole image of what was recorded. When played back it seems to be cropping most of the clips off, which is exactly like the TV safe grid you can put on when previewing. Can you change the settings so that it is wider and more realistic to the actually recorded images and not cropped so much?
Hope someone can help.. Feel like I'm not seeing the whole recorded video when produced for TV..

Thanks.

Jimbo223

Member Joined: Apr 25, 2012 02:59 Messages: 95 Offline

Feb 15, 2014 02:40

Ideally, your images should be imported as 16:9 to start with. Also check to make sure they're framed at the same width/height size for the project timeline or slightly larger (but still in the same ratio) if you want to zoom in.

blink471

Newbie Joined: Dec 11, 2013 23:20 Messages: 3 Offline

Feb 15, 2014 03:34

Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah photos are in 16:9 ratio and framed right... But I still get a zooming effect when produced and watched back on television... Still investigating settings... Thanks.

Jimbo223

Member Joined: Apr 25, 2012 02:59 Messages: 95 Offline

Feb 15, 2014 06:05

Also, if this is on standard PAL (4:3) the pixel size should be 1.094. If you use the Targa format for pictures there's a setting to adjust that.

For 16:9, the pixel size should be 1.33 but I can't remember straight off the top of my head.

I think the cause of your 'crops' is a square pixel size (ie: 1.00 setting).

Try, test, try again... and if you haven't tried a pixel size of 1.00 try that even.

Oops... just had a thought... if you're showing zoomed pictures on the TV perhaps someone accidentally pressed the zoom button on the TV remote at home or the setting is 'stuck' somewhere along the disk burn process. Worth a check. Double triple check.

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Walter789

Newbie Joined: Apr 04, 2013 06:43 Messages: 39 Offline

Feb 15, 2014 10:18

The problem is that there is no way (that I know of) to see the "Safe Grid" on the preview monitor while editing in either 16X9 or 4X3. The preview monitor just shows the entire image so you have to guess where the safe zone is. I've had the same problem, especially with titles. This is an important short coming of the product and should be added.

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James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Feb 15, 2014 11:25

Hi,
What I did was to open PD and place a color board on track one, then enable the 'safe zone' grid, Place a different color board on track two and resize to the safe area grid. and take a screenshot while viewing at 16:9. Then import that screenshot when doing edits.
you can modify with an image editor (if you have one) and export as transparent image if you want.
Jim
The screen grab
A image that can be overlayed (using chroma key)


Filename	SafEArea.jpg	Download
Description	SafEArea 16:9 (ntsc)
Filesize	45 Kbytes
Downloaded:	92 time(s)


Filename	NTSCSafeZone.png	Download
Description	Transparent NTSC safe area
Filesize	13 Kbytes
Downloaded:	88 time(s)

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blink471

Newbie Joined: Dec 11, 2013 23:20 Messages: 3 Offline

Feb 16, 2014 02:54

Thanks for the replies everyone.. will have another look now at settings and see what I can do. Its not a major problem, its just bugging me that my images aren't being shown fully. Will check out some these suggestions and get back to you...

Thanks.