Question About Safe Zone Compliance

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Question About Safe Zone Compliance

How rigorously should text annotations and graphics comply with the safe zone margins? When I pull all my content within the "safe" zones, the picture has exaggerated margins on my screen. But, the flip side is cropped content on some displays. YouTube probably doesn't automatically letterbox 1920x1080 format? Do people generally comply with the zones for broader accessibility, or compose the screen for computer monitor displays?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on May 12, 2014 10:20 PM

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Alchroma

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May 12, 2014 10:32 PM in response to chappa-ai

Have a read here:

http://www.larryjordan.biz/display-action-title-safe-zones/

Action and title safe were more applicable to the older CRT monitors/TVs as they could mask quite a bit the edges resulting in lost important parts of the image.

You never know who will watch the footage on what, so Action safe is like insurance.

Al

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chappa-ai Author

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May 12, 2014 10:41 PM in response to Alchroma

Thanks, my content is (intended) for web delivery (YouTube), but I guess to "play it safe" I should stay inside both boundaries, even if it makes the content look "crowded" on newer displays because of excessive margins.

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May 13, 2014 12:16 AM in response to chappa-ai

I think you can ignore safe-zones if it's to be viewed on the web or a computer as there should be no cut-off.

Try it and see.

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chappa-ai Author

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May 13, 2014 6:38 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

That's what I was thinking too, but got concerned when I connected our HD widescreen TV with the Mac to view it and all the edges were cropped. But maybe it would be different if viewed through the YouTube app on the TV. I was just wondering what others do with regards to safe zones and web video.

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