Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 04/04/06 00:12

David McCall wrote:

> "Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:hy0Yf.122238$g47.66667@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...

>>One trick I discovered to help with the video safe area is to take the
>>resulting video slide show and convert it to AVI, then reimport it and use
>>the MOTION filter to zoom the picture down to about 80%, then surround it
>>with black fill. This is easily done in Premiere. I don't know about the
>>others.
>>
>
> The trick I use for that is similar. I put 2 copies of the video or still
> on the timeline then squeeze the upper layer by as much as needed
> allowing the edges of the lower copy fill out the edges.
>
> If the background is a solid color or simple gradient, the edges
> will hardly show.

Equally interesting: If the presentation will be shown on a regular "TV"
set, you need to protect the video safe area, but if it will be
projected from a front projector, the entire frame will be seen. In my
experience.

Gary Eickmeier

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