Exactly that. Alot of the time im not thinking about overscan that a regular SD tv produces and alot of my picture is croped out. My question is, -Is it ok to scale a project down to 92 or 93% in order to get the entire image on the screen? Or does that degrade the footage?
Is resizing for TV overscan ok or not?
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DeVi| D0do
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You would run the risk of having your picture not go to the very edge of the screen on some TVs, I would think...
pro:
TV viewers would see on their sets what you framed originally (question: why did you not frame for TV to beging with?)
con: Slight degradiation in quality, as all footage must be rendered. Some people might see part of the border, as different sets have different amount of overscan and picture might even be not centered perceftly. If you would have to make a net version from that there would be black borders, or you would have to resize again.
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It would not do anything to the resolution people actually see on their sets. A slight resolution loss would come from rendering the footage.
TV viewers would see on their sets what you framed originally (question: why did you not frame for TV to beging with?)
con: Slight degradiation in quality, as all footage must be rendered. Some people might see part of the border, as different sets have different amount of overscan and picture might even be not centered perceftly. If you would have to make a net version from that there would be black borders, or you would have to resize again.
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It would not do anything to the resolution people actually see on their sets. A slight resolution loss would come from rendering the footage.
sellington
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The only way to do what your are saying is to add a black box around 8% of the frame to maintain the resolution. You can just scale it down because video for TV needs to be 720x480. I don't think this would be a wise move.
(question: why did you not frame for TV to beging with?)
--Well sometimes I just forget
(The only way to do what your are saying is to add a black box around 8% of the frame to maintain the resolution. You can just scale it down because video for TV needs to be 720x480)
--No you actually go to affect controls and put the scale down to whatever percent is needed. The same for scaling photos. It is still 720x480 but now with black around the edge.
Thanks for the input. I think I might mask off my lcd to a standard amount of overscan becase almost everybody will be watching on CRTs
--Well sometimes I just forget
(The only way to do what your are saying is to add a black box around 8% of the frame to maintain the resolution. You can just scale it down because video for TV needs to be 720x480)
--No you actually go to affect controls and put the scale down to whatever percent is needed. The same for scaling photos. It is still 720x480 but now with black around the edge.
Thanks for the input. I think I might mask off my lcd to a standard amount of overscan becase almost everybody will be watching on CRTs