Hi everyone. I'm currently using premier pro for video editing. I'm wondering if the safety zone grid still apply in today's screen dimensions? TV screens are getting wider and borderless. So do safety zones still apply? Love you hear your thoughts and advice. Thanks everyone.
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That's an interesting thought, I would assume that even though screens are getting bigger the safety zones would adapt to accommodate the changes.
Hi tony. I guess logically the safety zones would change to adapt to the new screens. But do we still need them though?
Hey, ok I see where your coming from. I guess it begs the question "what would happen without the safety zones". In your experience have you ever tried working with out the safety zone? (if it's even possible)
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Sharon, pay attention to the safety zones, yes they do still apply, specially the horizontal one.
What you see in your viewer in premiere outside the horizontal safety zones is not what you're going to see on the TV
To Tony: Yeah, I've tried that and I've tried putting text and graphics outside the safety zones. After I export the video, it looks fine on the tv and computer monitor. To Rafael: I still do pay attention to the safety zones, mostly out of habit. As I've mentioned above, I've tried putting text and graphics outside the zones, exported the timeline and played it back on a tv screen/computer screen. And the text still appears on the video, even though it kinds looks like its placed right at the bottom of the screen.
They still apply, I learned the hard way.
Hi Patrick, what settings should I be looking out for?
Are you using premiere on a Mac or a PC?
Both actually. At home with my own projects, its on a Mac. Currently Im helping a production house with some corporate videos and they run their premier on a PC.
To Patrick: Ok. Got it. Will keep that in mind. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this :-)
Back in the day of old tube style televisions, there was something called overscan. The signal actually painted "pixels" onto the tube prior to the portion of the tube that was actually visible to the television viewer. Today's modern HD televisions are designed differently. Every pixel you see of the HD signal in your editor is essentially visible on the screen. I say "essentially", because today's televisions still have frames, but their precision design is meant to show the complete image, with the exception of perhaps a few pixels. Treat your image as if it had margins, because of course we want to provide some breathing space, but these are primarily aesthetic choices. Let me put this another way to really drive the point home. Do you think your flat screen computer monitor is designed with different manufacturing techniques than modern television screens? And yet your modern computer monitor is designed to show every pixel. When using Premiere, bump your video to full screen and evaluate it.
Computer screens are different than HD TV screens
They serve a different purpose
Rafael, I didn't say they were the same, did I? I said they are both designed to be manufactured using modern and similar techniques, which means that the issue with overscan no longer exists. Please read the Wikipedia entry for "overscan", as linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan Everything I said in my prior post holds true. Feel free to read the entire Wikipedia article if you feel so inclined.