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Posted 20 July 2005 - 07:57 PM

When seeing the TV Safe Area graphic, two boxes can be noticed. So my question is why there are two boxes? is one for NTSC and another for PAL or is for another reason?

Hope someone can help me understand this.

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Posted 21 July 2005 - 12:07 AM

(1) SIZE. For NTSC DVDs, the background size should be 720x480. For PAL DVDs, the background size should be 720x576.

(2) TV SAFE AREA. See the picture below:

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Well, I have always wondered about this too.

But here is what I think it means...

- Anything outside the two dotted lines will be cut off on larger TVs

- Anything outside the bigger dotted box will be cut off by smaller TVs

Pretty much what I do is just keep the important stuff in the 'safe area' or in hte middle of the image.

Hope that helps.

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Posted 21 July 2005 - 12:32 AM

Did you overlap this on your working file? How o u know if it's inside or not?

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Posted 21 July 2005 - 01:21 AM

I basically try to think about this when doing menu artwork...

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It does not matter if the bottom part of Rob's legs are cut off the screen, but the text is rather important, so I try and work with the idea that the text should be in the middle, and have a background that fills the whole thing.

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Posted 21 July 2005 - 05:35 AM

What I do when making them is just design the cover with the cutoff areas in mind, and then check what I've done in tmpgenc dvd auther (pretend to create a dvd and add the menu, it then shows the cut off lines on it).

I've also read that on average, its about 10% in on all edges that gets cut off.

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Posted 21 July 2005 - 03:32 PM

What I do when making them is just design the cover with the cutoff areas in mind, and then check what I've done in tmpgenc dvd auther (pretend to create a dvd and add the menu, it then shows the cut off lines on it).

I've also read that on average, its about 10% in on all edges that gets cut off.

Yeah, i do that yesterday. Thanks my friend.
Another thing that works, was to convert the tvsafearea.jpeg into a psd file so i use it as a layer over my artwork, and then i fit the other layers into the safe area.

Thanks for all your tips.
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