Safe Zone

Hello - I put together a movie for a family that included words. I made sure all the words are inside the Safe Zone, however she said when she watches it on her 42" flat screen the words are cut off. I have never heard of this before. Any ideas? Thank you!

Hi -
Two things, the first you probably already know:
When you turn on the title safe markers, you get two green boxes. The smaller box is the title safe limit (no graphics are to extend outside of that box) and the larger box is the action safe limit (no critical action is to occur outside of that box - like the barrell of gun must extend from the edge of frame and into the action safe box to be seen on most conventional CRT monitors).
!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/TVSafe.jpg!
So assuming that your graphics do indeed fit within the inner Title Safe Marker then point two:
*Welcome to the world of chasing the client's monitor.* I have a 42" Panasonic monitor hooked up to Blu - Ray and DVD players, and the choices of aspect ratio presentation, and scan/overscan size are nothing short of amazing. I can set +the player+ to output certain aspects ratios and scan/overscan sizes, I can set +the Monitor+ to play certain aspect ratios and scan/overscan sizes.
I can imagine many, many, many people have the options miss-configured between the player and the monitor.
There are only two viable solutions -
1) Knowing that your graphics fall within SMPTE TV safe guidelines, stress that certainty to the client, stressing that they need to adjust their monitor/player accordingly.
2) Go to the client's location of the playback and adjust the equipment correctly yourself.
Solution #1 will make the client suspicious of you at best, and think you are lying and incompetent at worst, since everything (to them) looked great before seeing your material. It really only works if you can get them to come to you and see it playing back correctly on your system, and . . .
Solution #2 will make your material look good, but the client will be unhappy because everything else they watch on the monitor will now not look like they were used to seeing before it was adjusted correctly.
Good luck!
MTD

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