TV Safe Zone

[kgriff]

I have only made a few DVD projects in Videowave (Birthday DVD's of the kids partys, etc) I typically take digital pics with a Minolta Dimage and copy them to my computer. I have noticed that most of the edges of the images get 'cut off' , being outside of the TV Safe Zone. My desire is to have all images completly inside of the Safe Zone after I enlarge / reduce / crop as necessary in Photoshop. I have played around with photoshop canvas size and image size saving my test images as jpegs with all the combinations / permutations I can think of (in my limited experience). My question is: what settings should I use so that when I place them in Videowave, they reside completly in the safe zone. My desire is to have to photos completely fill any TV screen that I play the DVD's on. If that is not possible, I would like to put a black border that frames the images so that the images are as large as they can be and would be surrounded by a black frame.

Thanks, Ken

[sknis]

Thanks. I can now resize and move the image into the safe zone. (I am working off a copy of an old, old picture which originally must be 3 inches or so wide and maybe 7 inches or so long.) I would now like to do a manual pan to zoom in on faces, etc. I can do it in the "standard image" mode but can't seem to do it in this "overlay mode." Is it possible to pan in this mode?

 

Next I will try Image Cropper.

 

If you use image cropper with an image that is that different from "normal", that you still get black or other color bands around parts of that photo or others, remember that you can select (top menu) File> Production Settings and set the "Background fill" to any solid color, a gradient of colors (image) or a background photo. That way the black bars are set to something more interesting. The setting will be in place for the entire project but will only be seen when you need them. For your off size image, you may see it when you view the entire image but as you pan in, you would not see the background. This is especially good when you have images that are oriented both horizontally and vertically in the same slide show.

[DGBob]

If you use image cropper with an image that is that different from "normal", that you still get black or other color bands around parts of that photo or others, remember that you can select (top menu) File> Production Settings and set the "Background fill" to any solid color, a gradient of colors (image) or a background photo. That way the black bars are set to something more interesting. The setting will be in place for the entire project but will only be seen when you need them. For your off size image, you may see it when you view the entire image but as you pan in, you would not see the background. This is especially good when you have images that are oriented both horizontally and vertically in the same slide show.

 

 

Thanks all. The image cropper works well and then I can pan and zoom.

[ggrussell]

I have only made a few DVD projects in Videowave (Birthday DVD's of the kids partys, etc) I typically take digital pics with a Minolta Dimage and copy them to my computer. I have noticed that most of the edges of the images get 'cut off' , being outside of the TV Safe Zone. My desire is to have all images completly inside of the Safe Zone after I enlarge / reduce / crop as necessary in Photoshop.

You will need to add a border for this to work as you intend. Any image editor will work, but like Bruce suggests, I really like Image Cropper especially if you have a bunch of photos.

[missnz]

You can use the freeware Image Cropper to "crop" your pictures to TV safe zone size. You can batch "crop" of all of your pictures at one time.

I will be interested in doing the same sort of thing, putting still into a DVD. I would have thought if you could make the photo e.g. 800 x 600. That would stay in the screen is safe area, because when I was using version 6 I remember putting photos in and there was no cropping or losing of part of the photo. Because of the TV screen size, but I am running in PAL not sure that has something to do with it. What ever you have found out I would be interested in to finding out myself. Michelle

[ggrussell]

When adding photos to ANY video editor, they make the image fit the entire area. When you render this to a file for a computer, you will see the entire area when viewed. But when viewed on a TV, the electrons actually scan beyond the viewable area. That is what is known as the 'TV safe' area. Has been that way since the inception of the technology. Back in those days the TV tube was round.

 

If you have a photo where some of the subjects are close to the edge, you will need to add a border to keep the entire photo within the TV safe zone.

 

An alternative method is to use the overlay track. Insert a color panel. Add the image to the overlay and reduce it to 85%. This works fine for a few images, but gets tedious if you have a lot.

[DGBob]

When adding photos to ANY video editor, they make the image fit the entire area. When you render this to a file for a computer, you will see the entire area when viewed. But when viewed on a TV, the electrons actually scan beyond the viewable area. That is what is known as the 'TV safe' area. Has been that way since the inception of the technology. Back in those days the TV tube was round.

 

If you have a photo where some of the subjects are close to the edge, you will need to add a border to keep the entire photo within the TV safe zone.

 

An alternative method is to use the overlay track. Insert a color panel. Add the image to the overlay and reduce it to 85%. This works fine for a few images, but gets tedious if you have a lot.

 

I am following your instructions to keep an entire picture within the TV safe zone. I have inserted a color panel. I don't see how to add the image to the overlay. Would you please point me in the right direction? Thanks.

[kgriff]

Everyone,

 

Thanks for the input; i'll try and see if it works.

 

Ken

[ggrussell]

Click on the color panel. Click ADD PHOTO/VIDEO and select the still image. You should get a dialog box asking to add AFTER the panel or add to overlay. Choose overlay. You can then resize the still image.

[salyarena]

You will need to add a border for this to work as you intend. Any image editor will work, but like Bruce suggests, I really like Image Cropper especially if you have a bunch of photos.

 

Hi,

 

Are you referring to:

 

Maximum Traffic Image Cropper 1.0??

 

http://www.download-by.net/graphic-apps/ed...ge-cropper.html

 

I don't want to install the wrong one.

 

I thought changing the image to 4:3 aspect ratio would avoid all this, no matter what size of the image??

 

Thank you!

 

Gloria

[salyarena]

Thanks, it is really useful for the slideshows!

 

Gloria

 

Yes, that's the one.

[salyarena]

Hi,

 

Are you referring to:

 

Maximum Traffic Image Cropper 1.0??

 

http://www.download-by.net/graphic-apps/ed...ge-cropper.html

 

I don't want to install the wrong one.

 

I thought changing the image to 4:3 aspect ratio would avoid all this, no matter what size of the image??

 

Thank you!

 

Gloria

 

I think I found it:

 

http://www.darkwood.demon.co.uk/PC/crop.htm

 

Gloria

[grandpabruce]

I have only made a few DVD projects in Videowave (Birthday DVD's of the kids partys, etc) I typically take digital pics with a Minolta Dimage and copy them to my computer. I have noticed that most of the edges of the images get 'cut off' , being outside of the TV Safe Zone. My desire is to have all images completly inside of the Safe Zone after I enlarge / reduce / crop as necessary in Photoshop. I have played around with photoshop canvas size and image size saving my test images as jpegs with all the combinations / permutations I can think of (in my limited experience). My question is: what settings should I use so that when I place them in Videowave, they reside completly in the safe zone. My desire is to have to photos completely fill any TV screen that I play the DVD's on. If that is not possible, I would like to put a black border that frames the images so that the images are as large as they can be and would be surrounded by a black frame.

Thanks, Ken

 

You can use the freeware Image Cropper to "crop" your pictures to TV safe zone size. You can batch "crop" of all of your pictures at one time.

[DGBob]

Click on the color panel. Click ADD PHOTO/VIDEO and select the still image. You should get a dialog box asking to add AFTER the panel or add to overlay. Choose overlay. You can then resize the still image.

 

Thanks. I can now resize and move the image into the safe zone. (I am working off a copy of an old, old picture which originally must be 3 inches or so wide and maybe 7 inches or so long.) I would now like to do a manual pan to zoom in on faces, etc. I can do it in the "standard image" mode but can't seem to do it in this "overlay mode." Is it possible to pan in this mode?

 

Next I will try Image Cropper.

[ggrussell]

Sorry, Don't think you can pan/zoom on an overlay. Try Image Cropper and add a border. Then add that image to the main track so you can pan/zoom.

[malatekid]

I think I found it:

 

http://www.darkwood.demon.co.uk/PC/crop.htm

 

Gloria

Yes, that's the one.

[malatekid]

Sorry, Don't think you can pan/zoom on an overlay. Try Image Cropper and add a border. Then add that image to the main track so you can pan/zoom.

... or If you really need the image with pan/zoom effect in the overlay track, you can create a video(mpg) out of that image with pan/zoom effect. Then insert that video in the overlay track.