Footage out of image safe area

Hello,
I'm working something for a friend. She has a scene where the person's head is out of the image safe area. Is there a way to fix that other than a re-shoot? I am guessing not but wanted to make sure. I'm using FCP 5.
Thanks

There isn't, but you should ask your question on the Final Cut Studio forum.

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Captured footage is outside tv safe area

When I capture footage from my player into Final Cut the picture always ends up being outside the tv safe area. Anyone know why?
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What you are seeing is the full image recorded by your camera. However not all TV sets are able to view the full recorded image. Nor will the viewable area be exactly the same on all sets.
The "TV Safe" area is there as a guide to enable you to keep all key action inside an area which will be viewable on most TV sets.
See this [article on Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area].
Frank

Clearing image safe data

Hi!
Not so about imaging, but ... during ZCM agent deployment is written also image safe data onto disk. Now, when I need to put this disk (once being used on ZCM-belonged device and having image safe data on it) into another device then what is the better way to clear old device image safe data from disk. Apparently formatting disk is not enough, of course. And I need to accomplish this before installing operating system, because - as I have experience with ZCM 10.3 on this - as soon ZCM server "knows" about this disk/device it could mess up in database using info from this image safe area, am I correct? So, I put this disk into computer (not connected to network), boot from CD/DVD ...? Is Imaging BootCD good enough?
Yes, there is a lot of Google-info, but ... just to be sure and clear on this one.
More thanks, Alar.

Originally Posted by NovAlf
Hi!
Not so about imaging, but ... during ZCM agent deployment is written also image safe data onto disk. Now, when I need to put this disk (once being used on ZCM-belonged device and having image safe data on it) into another device then what is the better way to clear old device image safe data from disk. Apparently formatting disk is not enough, of course. And I need to accomplish this before installing operating system, because - as I have experience with ZCM 10.3 on this - as soon ZCM server "knows" about this disk/device it could mess up in database using info from this image safe area, am I correct? So, I put this disk into computer (not connected to network), boot from CD/DVD ...? Is Imaging BootCD good enough?
Yes, there is a lot of Google-info, but ... just to be sure and clear on this one.
More thanks, Alar.
If you're physically moving the disk from one pc to another, I would clear the ISD either in the old machine OR before you bootup and install the OS on the new machine
You can bootup via PXE/USB/BootCD and then just enter maintenance mode and type:
zisedit -r
zisedit -c

Images I move from one folder into another are disappearing, at first it was occurring immediately if I did not copy and paste the images. Today however I found out that images I had been using for days just up and vanished from their new location.

Images I move from one folder into another are disappearing, at first it was occurring immediately and only if I did not copy and paste the images. Today however I found out that images I had been using for days just up and vanished from their new location. A few of these images had copies in another folder that remained and the ones I couldn't find may or may not have ever had copies. I had backed up my system with time machine recently as well, so I went into the backup to retreive the lost images. When I searched and found the backup copies I got the error "the file alias cannot be opened because the original cannot be located". The crazy thing is that the images that remained on my computer did not give me the same error and opened like they should.
In short images that I am creating, saving, and using are disapearing so epically that even time machine versions are affected when retrieval is attempted. Any suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong without realizing it? Or perhaps other people have had similar bugs that are software related and have a solution?

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I understand what you tried to do but it doesn't work that way. Swapping drive names will just mess things up.
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Is there a way to LIST OUT all of the active images that are currently being used on a page in Dreamweaver?

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I serached past forum discussions and found several occurrences, but no convincing response.

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Why don't still images scale to fit the safe areas of the frame?

Why doesn't Encore offer offer more flexibility for scaling images in slideshows. Yeah, I know it's very cool that it does a scale, but I want everybody who watches my dvd to be able to see ALL of my image. For those who own standard televisions, they won't be able to see the whole image unless I pan and zoom, and even then I have to time the pan correctly.
Programmers, please add a feature so that users have more control over scaling.
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Said this dozens of times, and will doubtless say it dozens of times more.
There are 2 issues at play here.
1 - Encore is an authoring app, not an editor, and as such it is down to you to prepare your assets correctly.
2 - a standard TV will always crop the images - they overscan. the same image in a progressive scan system will display fully.
So, what you need to do is decide what you need to create your images at, and if you use Photoshop, After Effects or Premiere, then you can use the title safe/Action safe overlays to scale things yourself.
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This is what the safe areas are for.

Title Safe Area and Action Safe Area

I understand the recomandations about the Title Safe Area and Action Safe Area (PDF p215).
I am wondering if this is still acurate today, considering many people in the U.S have widescreen TVs. I`m just wondering if anybody still have a TV that only shows the Title safe area?
Also, on a Widescreen TV, is there any chance to have only the Action safe area?
Thanks.

I very much doubt anyone has a TV that only displays title safe area and nothing outside of it... the Title Safe area is a percentage reduction from the outer edge of the image. If a TV is showing in the 4:3 aspect ratio, any image will be sized appropriately to fit, and the title safe will be proportional... 10% in from the outer edge.
The title safe area originally existed to allow for text to be showing without too much distortion on a curved TV screen. The Action safe area simply extended beyond this to the edge of the screen, and is 5% in from the edge of the footage.
In the days of CRT sets, the glass screen has a plastic bezel which masks the very edge of the screen, meaning the image disappears neatly behind it. Action safe areas are just those that will appear beyond the bezel and be visible, but which might distort sightly due to the curvature of the glass.
On a computer screen the entire image is seen regardless, as the geometry of the screen is adjusted to appear within the entire display, and so AS and TS areas don't really apply.
Whether or not your screen is widescreen doesn't matter, it's all about pixel aspect ratios. The image is displayed proportionately, and the visible areas are the same from screen to screen. When setting up photoshop images with guides to show AS and TS, you'll find that the TV image is 720px wide, and the guides are set at 36px from the left and right for the AS, and 72px in for the TS. The vertical size differs between NTSC and PAL, and thus the guides are positioned differently, but still 5 and 10% respectively.

Seemingly simple question regarding safe areas

I can't seem to find a simple fix to this anywhere, though it seems to me like
there should be one.
When I shoot, I compose my shots in camera so that they look the same when played on a TV. Because of the nature of television, some portion is always cut off.
Is there an easy way to size the image down to fit the title safe grid so the entire IMAGE is safe on screen?
Please help me I am freaking out!

downtownjunkie wrote:
is there no happy medium for those of us who just want to make one
disc that will play well and will show the proper image on a range
of televisions as well as projector screens?
The use of safe areas is that happy medium.
Because I'm in a verbose mood, let's talk about movies for just a second. If you've ever had the chance to look at a strip of 35mm film, you'll notice that the exposed area isn't actually the same shape as a movie screen. Theatrical features are shown in a variety of aspect ratios, but they're almost always of a shape that's wider than a 35mm frame. Many movies are shot "full frame," meaning the whole 35mm film area is exposed when the camera rolls. Some of these movies are "soft-matted" in the projector at your local cinema; the film print actually has the whole exposed image on it, but it's projected through a rectangular plate that obscures the top and bottom.
(Not all movies are done this way. Some are hard-matted, and some are printed to be shown through anamorphic lenses, and so forth. I'm just drawing an analogy here, so don't harsh my mellow.)
Because you're showing the film through a little piece of metal with a hole cut in it, +no two projections of the same soft-matted spherical-lensed film will ever be framed exactly the same way.+
Not only that, but next time you go to the movies, look really closely at the edges of the screen. Odds are you'll see that the projected image actually spills over slightly, by up to a foot or so. Between soft matting and differences in projection, the extreme edges of a motion-picture frame are basically a no-man's-land. Anything right at the edge of the image is not guaranteed to be visible on the screen.
TV works the same way. Different sets handle overscan different ways. The solution — that happy medium you asked for — is to compose your shots with a "safe area" in mind. As noted above, a lot of cameras will show you safe-area guides right in the viewfinder; use them.
But the dirty little secret is that there are actually two "safe areas." There's "action safe," which is that area of the frame in which you can reasonably expect your audience to see +stuff happening.+ And then there's "title safe," which is the area of the frame which you can reasonably expect won't butt right up against the edge of the screen. That's why when you turn on safe areas in Final Cut, for example, you see two rectangles. The outer one is action safe; the inner one is title safe. On-screen titles, as the name implies, should always be kept entirely inside the title-safe area.
If you have any experience with print at all, consider the area outside action safe to be your "bleed." It's there to ensure that the image extends all the way to the edge of the screen, but you can never be sure precisely where the edge is going to fall.
In this particular case, maybe you should go back and look at your show while asking yourself if it really matters all that much whether what you see on the TV is precisely what you tried to film. Losing a little bit on the sides might offend your artistic sensibilities — that's not sarcasm; we're all here because we have artistic sensibilities — but it really might not make that much difference.

Does "Safe Area" apply to flat screens?

Hi, can anyone tell me the importance of "Safe Area" these days (e.g. denoted by rectangles on screen when adding titles)? When viewing videos on 16:9 flat screens, are details outside the internal rectangle likely to be lost, or is this only likely when viewers forget to set the correct aspect ratio? Was "Safe Area" more relevant when viewing old TV screens pre-dating the LCD/LED flat screens of today? If detail is critical on flat screens, should I be considering the external rectangle rather than the internal one when adding titles for viewing on flat screens? I am putting together a slide show of old family photos and shrinking them enough within frame to add titles over black space beneath the photos so that clean names can be read more quickly than if superimposed. I like the classy look of gold lettering on black background beneath old black and white photos. When heads are close to top of frame in the photos, the images must be shrunk a little more than perhaps desirable to fit lettering beneath the photos within the internal rectangle when adding titles. The photos won't have to be shrunk so much if it is OK to fit all within the external rectangle for flat screen viewing.
Using PE10, Windows 7 64 bit, i7 377ok, 16Gb RAM, Geforce GTX 650, ASUS 21 inch 16:9 LED screen.

The Title Safe, and Action Safe Areas were designed for the overscan, that existed in older CRT TV screens - unless the TV was a calibrated "studio monitor," which showed 100% of the raster. The amount of overscan differed make to make, and even model to model, so a "worst-case scenario" was chosen.
With current flat screen TV's, there is still often some overscan, but it is much less, in most cases, than with the CRT tubes. Many producers have changed from the old Title Safe of 20% to about 10%, and for Action Safe, from the old 10% to about 5%.
As there can still be some overscan, going out to 100% of raster can create cutoffs, and that is obviously not wanted.
Taking into account the vast number of TV types available today, LED, LCD, Plasma, etc., and the number of screen mfgrs., I would not overlook overscan, but think that you would be safe going to the 10% for the Title Safe (shown as the outer Action Safe recangle) for your Titles - unless some family members still have 4:3 CRT TV's. If they do, then stick with the old Title Safe Area.
Good luck,
Hunt

Action Safe Area

Hello,
I'm a "newbie" who is very eager to learn everthing I can about post-production using Final Cut Studio . . . I was going to reply to an archived post but not sure if anyone would stil be viewing that topic. Sorry if this is a well weathered question!
I've inversted in Apple Pro Training Text Books; Final Cut Pro 5; Soundtrack; Soundtrack Pro; Motion and DVD Studio Pro 4.
I'd like to learn as much as possible for myself, however any help from anybody would be appreciated.
Creating my project in FCP > Exporting to Quicktime > then Authoring in DVDSP.
Viewing in the simulator is exactly what I'm after!!
When I burn the project and play though the set top DVD player the images are cropped. I researched the issue on this forum and found posts explaining that the signal received by the TV was not the entire signal and that it was the TV that was the issue (I could be wrong, but that's the way it read to me) . . . I tested this theory by conecting my Powerbook to a projector via S-Video and selected - Digital Cinema Desktop Preview in the Simulator Preferences in DVDSP. Then I conected both the Yamaha DVD player (1 Year old) and the Pioneer DVD player (5 years old) and toggled between them to find out if my project would be successfully transmitted from both the laptop and a burnt DVD.
The result has lead me to believe the signal was not sent properly from the DVD players as both DVD players produced cropped results even though I was using a projector. The signal sent from the laptop was %100 and what I'd like to achieve from my DVD players. Weather in be a CRT, Plasma or Projector.
Are there any ways to compensate for the cropping eg: measurements or methods?
Hope this all makes sense.
Thanking you - JayMac

Welcome to the forums, JayMac.
The title of your message, "Action Safe Area," leads me to believe you've read about your action-safe and title-safe borders, and that you realize that all TVs "overscan" images. It might not be ideal, but they all do it, and you need to adjust for it. That's why Final Cut, Motion, and DVD Studio Pro all include the option of displaying "action safe" and "title safe" borders. Going past those borders will risk images getting cut off on a TV set due to overscan.
Your test with the video output from a PowerBook was not a valid test, unfortunately. If I hook my PowerBook to a TV set, I absolutely need the entire screen to display on the set, particularly the top of the screen--otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the menu bar to make selections. Therefore, computers with TV-out are designed to compensate for overscan, so that the entire desktop is visible.
The bottom line is that every TV overscans, and every TV overscans by a different amount. By using your active-safe and title-safe borders, you'll be assured that those parts of your video or menu will be visible. This is the best way of handling things, rather than trying to "fight the power" and somehow compensate for overscan.

TV Safe Area vs. Standard Crop Area ?

What is the difference between:
View - TV Safe Area
and
View - Standard Crop Area ?

This is from iDVD Help.
+_Checking the TV safe boundaries of an iDVD menu_+
+*When you create a project, you may not know what kind of technology viewers will use to watch your DVD. For example, if you create a widescreen project and your viewers have standard television screens, some parts of your DVD may not be visible. Also, some television sets may not show the outer edge of your DVD menus and movies.+*
*+If you know that your DVD will be viewed on a television screen (not a computer screen), you can check your project to make sure all elements of it will be visible to viewers.+*
+To see the TV safe boundaries for your project:+
+Make sure the menu you want to check is showing in the iDVD window.+
+Choose View > Show TV Safe Area.+
+A shaded area appears on the menu. The inner area that is not shaded is visible on most television sets.+
+If your project is widescreen, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, choose View > Show Standard Crop Area.+
+The area inside the boundaries is visible on a standard television screen.+
The reference to Crop Area deals with the ratio of the image dimensions. The TV safe area is best described by the section in Bold above.
I hope this helps.

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Hello, I am new to Zenworks Imaging, but I have lots of the pieces working
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A school district with three primary servers:
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
ziswin is doing its job as a service if the image save data contains the
just imaged flag and will do its stuff before the user locks in an requires
a reboot after that. there was also a bug which should have been fixed in
the latest patches of 6.5
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