Safe zones.

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m_bass

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Is there a way to turn on safe zones and a center marker in the vf or lcd monitor. I looked in the book but can't seem to find anything.
 
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you can turn on a center market in spot mode.. but what i usually do is put one of those pda protective sheets on the LCD (they help reduce glare as well) and use a sharpie marker to mark off center and safe zones.
 
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By "safe zones" do you mean TV Safe? Because the viewfinder and LCD only show TV Safe, they don't show the full frame.
 
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Yes I mean TV safe. So it's not like a regular camera where there is a 1/4 inch on the side of the lcd that is not seen on a regular tv?
 
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Actually, the LCD shows more than TV safe, but it does not show overscan. The LCD shows somewhere inbetween TVsafe and Full frame.
 
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does someone have the exact dimensions of where the safe zones are for the lcd already figured out?

thats a great idea about the pda overlay, i'll have to go find one of those.

matthew
 
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Jarred,

does this applies also to extern monitors?

that means that if shooting for a free of overscan purpose some undesire element which doesnt the lcd doesnt show may appear (f.e.: a boom!! or the hair of a script girl on a tight room!)

/TOM/
 
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In some informal testing, it appears that the LCD screen, while not showing the full frame, does give you a guide as to what would be in the frame. There's a groove around the LCD screen, and in my testing, that grooved area seems to exactly correspond to what the full frame would be.
 
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Damn, I should have read the whole post.;)
 
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From my Visual Quickpro Guide for DVD Studio Pro 1.5 (By Martin Sitter):

Action Safe zone: 5% in from the edge of the video (or 36 pixles from the left and right, 24 pixles from the top and bottom).

Title safe zone: 10% from the edges of the video (or 72px from the left and right, 48px from the top and bottom).

~Andrew
 
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Jarred,

How much (how wide (cm and mm ) on each border) paint you with the sharpie mark on the Pany's LCD?

thanks
//TOM


psd: anyh oy you guys know of some bradcast system on any land that wouldn't need to concider the safe mode and automatically add a black border to avoid cropping the picture on each kind of receptor? I guess that that with safe zone doesnt aply so much if one is watching tv on a projector....i guess that safe zone just applies to TV units...but i am not sure..... ::)
 
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Thanks kitsu!

Tom: Just make a safe-zone frame in your NLE, play it through firewire to the camera and use that for your marks, I'd say...
 
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