Project built without Action Safe Zone in Mind - help??

hello -
I am working with DVD Studio Pro for the first time and am having to take a project that was built in Final Cut for the web and burning it to DVD-Video in a 4:3 format.
The problem that I am having is that the project was built without Action Safe Zone in Mind and is getting cut off on the TV screen. Is there an easy way to just shrink the whole project in DVD Studio or FCP without having to touch the timeline?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

You could create a new sequence in FCP, then put the original sequence into that new sequence. Control-click the video track in the new sequence, open the motion tab, and re-scale the entire sequence.

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I have started a home 1080p project. Almost all my source files are shot that I need 100% of view. I plan to have my finalized movie in different formats 1080p as well as DVD and to be viewed on iOS devices.
My questions:
1) is frames' content that is beyond Safe Zones will be visible on DVD/TV or/and exported movie file.
2) if I resize all the frames to fit largest safe zone's frame, will I get black (unused space) visible in final movie?
Thank you.

Thank you Tom,
this project was shot using Canon's EOS 5D Mark II and all my background is photographic. These safe areas is something I need to consider in the future and learn somehow how much it is in viewfinder as there are no such marks in my camera.
Will see how it works when I have the project finalized.

Basic Title safe and action safe zones questions

1.) Why is it that a title needs to be within the inner square, otherwise it may not display on a TV, though action can still take place in the outer square outside the title safe zone and it is still fine?
2.) Do these zones apply to CRT televisions, LCD, Plasmas, and video intended for being displayed through a projector the same way?
Thanks.

1. Safe area and safe title were developed many years ago, back when folks had TV sets with rounded corners. There was a real risk that a title would not be displayed in full if it went outside the boundary.
Pictures are interpretated differently to text. If say, someones left shoulder and arm are out of picture, it is obvious what is missing. An incomplete title can easily be misunderstood or not understood at all.
2. Unless you have absolute control over the device which will be displaying your movie, apply the rules to everything.

Title/Action safe zone Setting GONE?

Did the ability to change the safe lines to a custom setting go away with the latest FCPX update... Please tell me I am just missing it... I don't see it in the preferences... FCPX is okay for fun editing, but a JOKE for a production house with clients sitting behind you...

Well, I guess we can add that to the list of what they left off of what they are calling a PRO application..
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'Title Safe' and 'Action Safe' boundaries

I assume that the 'Title Safe' area is the boundaries where the Title should not exceed, and that the Action Safe' area is a boundary that the action should not exceed. However, does this mean that nothing will show beyond those boundaries, or that you might run the risk of cutoff if they are exceeded?
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Hi(Bonjour)!
All material that is outside the action safe zone cannot be viewed on a TV set, but will be seen on a computer screen.
+Broadcast monitors+ are designed to display this area too.
Try your camcorder by frame the action very close the edges and look the clip in viewer. You should see the extra area. Some pro camcorders do offer an showing overscan feature to monitor this area upon shooting.
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Is there a quick way to fit everything in the Title/Action Safe Areas ?

Hi,
(sorry in advance for my english, I'm a french canadian)
I built a complete DVD without realizing that I should consider the "Safe Areas" (see my first post : "Formatting in 4:3 but image is still stretched on a 4:3 TV. What the... ?"), so now I'm stuck with a 12 hours project that show only some part on TV.
Something strange too is that I first thought what was shown corresponded to the "Action Safe Area", but I just realized that both sides are cut like the "Title Safe Area" and top/bottom are cut like the "Action Safe Area". It's not one or the other, it's a mix of both. What causes that ?
What I need to know now is if there is a way to compress all the DVD or make everything to fit quickly in the viewable area so I will not have to fit everything one by one.
Thanks for your help.
P.S.
The 4:3 simulation mode should specifiate the overscanning process in the application when we use it, so it would solve a lot of problem in the first place.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9695813#9695813
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Video no longer matches Safe Zones

Hello I am running Encore 2.
My clips are uncompressed QT @720x486.
When I put them in Encore, the video is larger, almost as if Action Safe became the border of the footage. However, if I recompressed the footage to 720x480, the footage betters matches the original size. However, the files also seem to be dropping the fields since the footage looks so soft and without detail.
I have tried different transcoding settings including auto, my own as well as the presets. The disc burn and play but at the wrong size and bad quality.
One more oddity, all the files were exported from an Avid Symphoney with lower fieled. However, only one file, the main large one had to be switched to upper. I guess enocre just decided to switch?
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Malameel

Thanks for the reply! You did answer some questions. I feel so stupid about the cropping I am doing, of course, I just didn't think it through.
However, why does Enocre then take 720x486 as a resolution and what is it technically doing to that footge? It says it can bring it in which tells me that it would automatically correct the 486 issue correctly. Either way I will resample the footage at 480.
This rise other problems though. Why did only one need to be reversed? The other footage played, but was soft. Maybe it was dropping the other fieled? The settings are unclear of what it thinks came in verses what is going out.
As far as the safe zones, I am comparing the different settings within Encore. If the footage is 480, then it closer to bing correct, but if it is 486, it zooms in about 10%.
I will try and reburn within the hour or so and post the changes. Thanks for all the help.

How can i make my imovie contents fit in tv safe zone in idvd?

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i have a project that i made in imovie, and imported into idvd in order to burn it to DVD. when i play the DVD in a regular player on a 27 inch TV (probably 6 years old) some of the images that have text on them are bleeding off the screen and you cannot read it. How can i fix this?
Is there a way to make imovie project smaller so it is sure to fit in TV safe zone? i can't seem to even select the tv safe zone when i have the imovie project selected in the maps view in idvd.
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Action safe...

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Kristina--
Do a search on this forum dealing with TV safe area. A lot of good information.
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Is there a way to put a 4:3 safe zone overlay on a 16:9 frame. The idea being to ensure that the substance of a shot or graphic, CG, is viewable on a 4:3 tv when 16:9 edit is edgecropped.

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Unfortunatly, FCP can't show a 4:3 title/action safe on a 16:9 frame.
The only work-around is to make one yourself in photoshop and plonk it over your clips when needed... not ideal, but does the job.

Words in safe zone cut off

Hello I have a project with several movies on one DVD. I am using standard, not widescreen. When I export my movie out of final cut express, which is in dv-NTSC I preview it in iDVD and it shows a caption of widescreen preview. I re-exported it and the same thing happens to my slideshow. None of my other clips show that. Why is that? Is it effecting my safe zone? When I play the DVD on my tv some of my words in the safe zone aren't safe, not seen on the screen. Thanks.

Please help. I have looked at other discussions. I have cut the entire slideshow out of FInal Cut Express and repasted it in another Final Cut Express document. That doesn't change the "Widescreen Preview" in green. Like I said it doesn't show that on the other. I have deleted my preferences com.apple.idvd.plist
I have saved it to the desktop. I am at a loss and I need to get this project done today. Please help!

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.

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.

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