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I think you will find that it is extremely rare that you would want to place any vitally important text or visuals right at the edge of the screen for aesthetic reasons. I hope that helps… and good luck with the launch of your film! A production house developed lower thirds for our company that are so large that when captioning while the lower third ID is shown, the editors resort to showing the captions at the top of the screen and then slide them to the bottom after the lower third is removed.

I think this looks awful. What size lower third and omni-present bug do you recommend composing in After Effects. Our video is all destined for our website and social media not broadcast media; and we want open captions burned in the videos. Thanks for any suggestions. This will allow you to make the text of the captions much larger than if they are traditional captions over the footage.

You can also place your bug in this area if you wanted. You can move your bug and lower third closer to action safe — just understand that on some phones those elements might be cut off for certain viewers. I would actually recommend to place the captions in the area that might get cut off, if that works. Thanks, I am glad you found value in the article.

I am not able to find the original image to make a png of the title safe graphic. Do you have any thoughts or experiences if streaming only to Twitch regarding safe zones? There are overlays that display during ads which let the viewer know that an ad will end soon, so if you are uploading an ad you should factor those in. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Yes, Title safe still matters — especially for online video Title safe, action safe, safe margins, safe area, safeties — whatever you want to call them, they matter.

The letterbox format, in contrast, preserves the entire width of the original picture. Since the original film is not as tall relatively speaking as a TV set, the areas above and below the picture are filled with black. The advantage of letterbox format is that all of the original picture is visible. The disadvantage is that it's shrunk down to fit a TV screen; a significant portion of the screen is "wasted" on the black bars.

With VHS, a letterbox film would lose much of its original detail. Since the late s, pan and scan has become less popular. Its primary advantage to the consumer was optimal use of TV screen area, but the growing popularity of DVD, combined with the decreasing cost of HDTV, has made it easier than ever to enjoy high-quality widescreen at home.

By the early s, sales of widescreen letterbox and full-screen pan and scan DVDs were almost equal; some TV series have even begun using There are several other approaches to creating versions of films, but those typically require special filming techniques, or access to final proofs of the original film. For more information on video-transfer methods, see How Film is Transferred to Video.

Images and videos stored on a computer are saved as a big rectangle full of tiny square pixels. Each pixel stores a single color; you can think of a digital image as a giant paint-by-number grid, with millions of possible colors.

The more pixels in a digital image, the more detail can be captured. In the digital camera market, this resolution is simply expressed in megapixels, or millions of pixels. It's a good thing computers are fast, because it would take a human a very long time to do a paint-by-number this big. Digital video stored on a computer has no particular limitation on resolution, but digital video disc formats such as VCD, SVCD, and DVD only allow certain resolutions, in terms of pixels.

Obviously, the resolution of a video in pixels has little bearing on the aspect ratio of the video; 1. So why the weird ratio? There's a good reason for it. DVD was designed to perform well with both 1. We will, however, try to publish comments that are representative of all received. We ask that comments are civil and free of libellous or hateful material.

Also please stick to the topic under discussion. Please do not write in block capitals since this makes your comment hard to read. In Premiere, the zones are displayed as white rectangles with a small hash mark indicating the vertical and horizontal centers of the frame.

These boundaries are essential for any video going to DVD, cable, or broadcast — in other words, anywhere except the web. Text that touches the edge of an image creates a very uncomfortable feeling in the viewer; generally, this is something we want to avoid.

Instead, I frame all essential text, logos, or composites so that everything is contained inside Action Safe. How to you export video with the title safe and action safe guide as overlay. I need to do this while sharing animatics with clients not for broadcast. Those guides are display only. The best workaround is to create them as an overlay in Photoshop, then apply that as though it was text at the top layer of your project. In the past, I would not have been concerned, as they are outside the action safe zone, and too slight to appear on an old TV.

Would platforms like vimeo and video projectors automatically hide these edges, without my having to crop them? I think you are playing this too safe.

When up-resing SD to HD you need every pixel to make your image look even reasonably good. Instead, I would describe the vignetting as a stylistic choice you made to emphasize that you are showcasing historical footage — and stop worrying.