Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing when you say that you are "re-sizing" the video, you are in fact scaling your source video down within Premiere which is sized to fit withing the action safe area of the frame, so that when looking at the program monitor, you now have a black border around the video. Is this correct?
If this is the case, there may be drawbacks to doing this. The "safe" areas were much more important in the CRT days of television. I'm guessing that you are viewing your output on one of these. CRT's, by their design limitations, could not have accurate frame edges. As a result, you had what was known as overscan. The manufacturer placed the bezel around the tube, masking off the edges, so that you had a crisp edge to the picture. Different manufactures and different models/sizes of TV's had various amounts of the picture that was cut off. In looking at average CRTs, the action safe and title safe areas were defined. It was determined that 100% of TV's in the market would display all of the title safe area without fail, and the majority of them would display the action save area most of the time. The remaining "unsafe" area would be cut off to varying degrees by all CRT monitors. So as programs were produced, these safe areas were kept in mind as framing of shots was determined so that all important info was kept within the action-safe area. (Professional production CRT monitors had a switch usually labeled "Overscan" which would shrink the image a little, allowing the full frame to be viewed within the viewable area). In today's environment of digital displays, safe areas are not nearly so restrictive. I frequently violate the title safe margin without ill effect. (although I stay withing the action safe area) Most modern displays still cut off a small amount of the outside of the image, but in my experience this is around 2-3% instead of the 10-20% of the CRT days. If you are displaying the video on a CRT, and you are able to see the whole frame, with it resized within the frame, if you view the same content full-screen on a 4:3 (non-widescreen) computer monitor, you'll have black borders around the video. Similarly, if you view this on a LCD, Plasma, or DLP HDTV, you'll have significant black boarders around the whole image. So if this is the case, what you have done will work only on the display you are currently using. If this is not the case, then I have completely misunderstood what is actually happening. If that is the case, if you could post examples of what you are seeing, we could help you in a much more expedient manner. --Andrew P.S. More info on overscan can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
