Title Safe Modification

I am wondering, is there a way to change the perameters for the Title Safe image that you can toggle on and off? I'd love to have cinemascope title safe bars available. In the past, I've just created a 1920x1080 photoshop document, with black bars at the top and bottom, and just put that above all my video during editing. When exporting, I just crop it out, something like 14%... but I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to do this DURING the editing process, rather than having to place the PS document over all the video on a hovering video timeline. Any thoughts? I've Googled around, but didn't see anything that immediately popped out as a solution, other than to just crop during export. But what I'm trying to do is have an established guideline during editing, so that I can properly place the video and adjust to match eyelines and all that. Thanks for your thoughts!

Thank you very much. That's exactly what I needed.
Good news, and thank you for posting the setting for Cinemascope too.
If that does it for you, perhaps read over this article: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058744?tstart=0
Good luck,
Hunt

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This question is on behalf of a friend.
He has shot 16:9 with his Canon XM2 and put the clips in an Anamorphic DV project.
It contains 2 sequences which both had 16:9 Title Safe overlays displaying in the Canvas.
Suddenly the overlays in one sequence have become 4:3 even though the Canvas window is still 16:9.
He thinks it happened after he selected View>Show Overlays but can't be sure.
How does he get the errant overlay to display once more as 16:9?

I received a phone call to say that the problem was solved though I couldn't really understand the reason. I was told that he had accidentally switched out of anamorphic.
However, if this were so, surely he would have had an obviously squashed 4:3 image with 4:3 Title Safe area.
Anyway, enough grey calls have been expended, so we can all forget it!

4.3 title safe in 16.9 frame

Hi everyone. I have just started producing TV commercials in FCP Studio and using the latest JVC HD camera. I am shooting and editing 16.9 but got caught today with the title just out of the 4.3 zone. As 80% of viewers in Australia dont have 16.9 sets this is important. How can i create a 4.3 title safe zone to put on top of my 16.9 canvas window as a guide.

Here is a free one...http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_widesafe.php
tim
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Using 4:3 title safe while in widescreen project.

I work for a news network and often times, we'll mix standard definition video with HD content. Is there a way to get the title safe to 4:3 while in the widescreen HD project? Whenever I choose title safe, it comes up as widescreen and I can't change it anywhere. If this isn't available in the current version of FCP, can it be made one please!?

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.

Title Safe for video..

So I just looked at a sample of my project on a TV and its cut off. What I'm doing now is exporting, re importing to FCE, turning on title safe, and scaling the entire video down to that first border (in between the 2 lines). Will that solve the problem or will it give me a black line around the video on a TV?
To illustrate what I'm talking about: If this is a segment of title safe (the tv safe and title safe lines)
| v | + | v | The v is where I'm scaling my video boarder to.

The approach is correct, but the amount of scaling is very dependent on the TV. If you scale it to the second internal blue rectangle in the canvas (title safe) for sure you'll also have a black border around your video. In my experience it is sufficient to think of a rectangle slightly larger than the larger rectangle. But as I said it depends on the TV.
In my opinion the best approach is to avoid titles to exceed the title safe area, and important action to be close to the borders.
If you can connect your Mac to your TV using firewire (and a A/D converter - your camcorder might be used for that), you may monitor the effect of scaling directly on the TV during editing.
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TV and title safe .... exporting???

Hi
I'm exporting a clip to post to my blog and I've moved a few shots up and they are all in safe title and TV safe BUT when they export you can see what's underneath the clip????? That should not be happening?
Please help?
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To mirror what Jim said, because you don't seem to understand...
What you see on your monitor is EXACTLY what you will see if you export a QT movie to play on your computer. You see EVERYTHING. TVs tend to cut off some of this picture, due to the molding that holds the TV screen in place...plastic or metal covers a little of the front of the tube, thus blocking some of the image. Some TV screens were covered more than others...so TV safe takes into account the WORSE it could be. That any action inside that box is guaranteed to be seen. Title safe goes in a bit further so that the titles aren't on the edge of the screen.
Again, if you export for the web, this is moot...you get the entire image.
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Using 4:3 guides and title safe in 16:9 sequence.

Does anyone know if its possible to apply 4:3 guides and title safe to a 16:9 timeline sequence?
thanks

I'm not aware of being able to do it within the programme with regards using the canvas/viewer guides but it wouldn't take much to knock one up using opaque blocks in a shape generator and then just having those as the uppermost layer in your sequence for checking. You could also make a PSD file with lines on a transparent background in photoshop and employ the same way.
I take it your creating graphics etc as shot material would have hopefully taken this into consideration at the time of filming!

Crop marks for Center Cut in Title Safe?

I have recently picked up Premiere Pro 5.5 after the whole Final Cut Pro X fiasco, and a feature I loved and used all the time in Final Cut Pro 7 which was missing in Final Cut Pro X was crop marks for Center Cut in the title safe. I often have to do HD Projects that are broadcast on 4:3 TV center cut, so you need to make all the graphics for the center cut for SD, and then leave safe space for the HD version.
From what I can see I don't see these marks in Premiere Pro 5.5. Is there a place for feature requests for Premiere Pro, so I can put in a request as this is something that is really necessary in our production workflow.

Well, PrPro's Titler has the Center Align for both Vertical & Horizontal, but for guides, etc., it is lacking.
I use the tips in this ARTICLE to create alignment guides, as per my needs.
I have been filing Feature Requests for years, and have also asked for many of the element Alignment functions from PS.
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Hunt
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PPS - I assume that you have looked at Title & Action Safe marks, and they just do not do it for what you need.

Title Safe Doesn't Appear . . .

In the Canvas, I click the Title Safe option and it doesn't appear . . . (it used to)!
I'm sure it's something simple - but I can't sort it out - help!
Andy

Open your Displays Preferences and change your display ( or both displays, if you have two) to Millions of Colors.

Flag for overriding TV zoom function? Or title-safe settings for zoomed video...

Here's the problem: I've got SD spots with correctly set up title-safe graphics. However, I keep seeing the spots playing on HD TV's where the picture has been set to zoom/stretch, and consequently the title graphics are stretching off-screen.
So the question's actually a two-parter: Is there a flag I can set in my video that will override an HD set's zoom function and force my spots to play unstretched on these TV's? Or (part two), what graphics boundary settings would I have to use to keep my title graphics on-screen even it the video is zoomed?
Regarding part two, yeah, I could experiment and find out the settings that will work, but I figure someone's run into this before and has an answer, which would save me a bunch of time...
Thanks in advance...

Is there a flag I can set in my video that will override an HD set's zoom function
Thank God, no! It's bad enough that disk authors can take away our right to skip FBI warnings and all the other BS on a DVD before we actually get to the movie.

4:3 title safe on 1920x1080

Hi all
How do I call up a 4x3 grid so I can do titles within 4x3 title safe, on a 1920x1080 timeline ?
thank in advance
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Cheers James.
rottendotapple, if you are using FCP 7x then you will see tick marks in the 16:9 guides ... those tick marks are there to indicate the 4:3 title and action safe marks, so if you just need a simple indicator then that'll probably suffice. If you need something more then you can try my Safe Guides generator, or have a look about for some others, like DH_WideSafe from Digital Heaven or maybe just create an overlay guide in Photoshop (or download something to the same effect). Lots out there.
Best
Andy

4:3 title safe protect grid in HD project

I have been searching and flipping on tabs looking for an option for title safe settings.
I'm working on an HD project and want the title safe grid to come up as a 4:3 safe protect zone.
can i change the title safe settings in an HD project to do this?

http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_widesafe

TV safe, Title Safe, Broadcast Safe / all other safety measures...

I edit a simple slideshow, two songs and pictures in a DV NTSC 32 Anamorphic Sequence... I burn it to a DVD and looks great on a projector hooked up to a computer, and of course looks great ON a computer... other than slight interlace "waving."
I have the Title Safe checked in the Canvas options, and my type barely overhangs the inner line. On the TV, it cuts off a whole letter on both sides! Am a using the junkiest DVD player and TV combo ever? or am I just not understanding this TV Safe lines.
Clarification... I want a NTSC to monitor playback, but that just isn't an option right now. I KNOW how much I would love it, it's just that I don't have one sitting here right now hooked up. very sad.
What do I need to know about getting a movie off my FCE platform onto a DVD player and TV...
thanks for the replies. great help.

Your issue is most likely related to overscan being out of spec. The overscan is TV related and specified. It should be only relevant for CRT or projection TV's. The borders drawn on the canvas only relate to the TV standards and specifications. There should be no overscan issues with LCD and plasma TVs. The TV is probably out of alignment or maybe an old/poorly designed CRT set with high voltage power supply out of control. Projection TV's usually have adjustments that can bring them into spec either mechanically or electrically. If the TV has a poor power supply, the overscan will vary with line voltage. Your DVD is most likely o.k. Overscan was actually desirable on TV's, because people do not like black borders around the picture. As they add text (titles, subtitles, etc.) the overscan needs to be controlled. It gets even worse if text is added from computers. More modern sets from reputable manufacturers are pretty strictly controlled to have overscan, but not too much of it.
Here is a reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
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What is outside the Title Safe Area?

I am a bit confused b y the explanation (in the manual) of the Title Safe Area and Action Safe Area (p.215). The manual states that these settings indicate, "... portions of the menu that may not be viewable on most consumer monitors." Is there any way to determine that on the computer screen, or is it pot luck depending on the individual TV? Does it also depend on whether the TV is a rear projection, plasma, or LCD?
Since I am using one of my images as the background for the menu, I'd like to know how much of the image might be cropped.
Barry

My experience is confined to PAL. Image sizes for NTSC are different. As I understand it, Title Safe and Action Safe areas do not exist in, and are irrelevant to, the widescreen (16:9) format when displayed on a 16:9 TV. This is because every pixel of a widescreen video is always shown on a widescreen TV (assuming that the DVD player has been set to 16:9, see below). Title/Action Safe areas are only necessary for displaying widescreen video on 4:3 format TVs. This is because the Powers That Be decided that widescreem video should be shown slightly enlarged on a 4:3 TV. This gives a larger and therefore clearer image compared to full Letterboxing where the full width of the widescreen image is shown but with inevitably wider black bars at top and bottom. However, this enlargement causes parts of the widescreen image at left and right to be cropped on most TVs, which is usually no great loss.
On the display settings, for movies in widescreen (16:9), I set the display options in the following places:
1. DVD SP > Preferences > Encoding Set "Aspect Ratio" to 16:9
2. DVD SP > Preferences > Simulator Set "Aspect" to 16:9
3. In the Menu Inspector for each menu, Menu Tab, set "Aspect Ratio" to 16:9, and do this before setting the Menu Background image and its Overlay file (otherwise the Overlay file will not register accurately with the Menu Background image, at least that is the case with my outfit - DVD SP 3.0
4. Set each Video Track to 16:9 To do that, activate the Graphical Tab in the window at top left of the screen, select the track, and in the now-visible Track Inspector (General Tab) I set "Mode" to "16:9 (Letterbox)" because my TV is 4:3. (It is tempting to assume that if the TV is widescreen, you would set it to "16:9", but with my setting of "16:9 (Letterbox)" the DVD also displayed correctly on two widescreen TVs available to me (ie., it filled the whole screen). I don't know what display setting the owners had on their DVD players.
5. Finally, the DVD player needs to be set to 16:9 (if the TV is physically 16:9), or to 4:3L if the TV is 4:3 (at least, that works for me).
So there is quite a lot of setting to do to get the correct display. I am surprised that Apple did not offer a single setting in Preferences to cover all this. Perhaps DVD SP 4 or 5 does.
G5/2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GB RAM, 150 GB HD, Sony DCR-HC96 mini DV, FCE HD 3.0 DVD SP 3

Title safe problem on 4:3 tv

Hi all. Matt from Australia here. my question is this.
When I simulate my 16:9 project in DVDSP, with it set to 4:3 letterbox, it all looks good - all the text up the top of the screen is visible and is letterboxing as expected. When I play the burnt dvd back on my laptop - all is cool. However, when I play it back on my 4:3 tv in the letterbox mode, some of the title up the top is cut off and letters are missing. Like I said, in the dvdsp simulate mode it all looks great. If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be great. Thanks in advance - Matty

Are you saying that there is text in the black area above the video? What happens to that on a 16:9 TV? I guess you hope that people watch it as 4:3 with bars down the sides, and don't zoom the video to make the 16:9 video fill the 16:9 space.
Anyway, Action Safe and Title Safe rules would apply to the above situation. On most CRT TVs you'll lose 5% off the top and bottom of the picture completely, and another 5% may get lost or partly cropped. All text ought to be lower than 10% from the top, or higher than 10% from the bottom.
DVDSP has a safety option you can turn on, to preview where your text is likely to fall. Does that show any of the text being chopped off?

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