Hi Rick
this whole thing seems to me much simpler than everybody here seems to think.
and is has nothing to do with premiere or encore or mpeg.
(if i don't misunderstand you completely)
it is a known and simple fact that tv sets use to cut a bit from all sides of a
frame.
old crt-tvs crop a bigger part, flatscreens usually less, and on a computer you
see the whole frame.
that is why the idea of the "safe areas" was born.
and the idea is:
the full frame should be filled with picture (to ensure a full picture on a
device that does not crop).
but the important things should happen inside the "action area" (to ensure that
you can see whats happening on every device).
and for the worst case (i.e. an old crt set that crops a lot) the titles should
be in an even smaller area, the "title area".
(i dont remember how many times i had to reject titles, graphics or dvd-menus
from graphics artists who thought the don't need to consider this)
for this reason every cameraman knows that in the end the viewer usually will
see less than what's been shot, and adjusts the frame accordingly.
(i.e. keeps the action in the action area)
not only for video, by the way: every cinema-projector for 16 or 35mm movies
and every slide-mount for transparencies crop the picture as well.
now if you say: "When I bring it into Encore it exceeds the safe margins and
cuts the sides off when presented on TV.", you are missing the point: not
encore cuts the sides, but yout tv does (and that is its normal behaviour).
now if you really need to see every bit of your frame on your tv, you did the
right thing:
you used premiere to reduce the size of the visible picture to the size of the
action area.
this simply means the picture is not 720 x 480 px anymore, but something like
700 x 460 or so, and when premiere renders it to the dvd-compliant size, it
simply fills the difference with black to get the necessary 720 x 480 px.
but it means you missed the idea of the action area: the idea is not reducing
the picture to this size, its keeping the action in this area.
so of course the technical parameters are the same, but in the latter case you
simply have a smaller picture with a black border. if you play the mpeg file in
a videoplayer on your computer, you will see that.
now if you really want to produce a dvd that shows precisely 100% of the frame
on your one special tv, than do it like this.
but it means that some people will still get some cropping, while others will
see black borders around the picture.
hope this helps
chris
> Subject: [AP] Premiere to Encore Question
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am flummoxed by a circumstance when bringing a video into Encore from
> Premiere. For instance, the original video is an Mpeg II, 720 * 480.
> When I bring it into Encore it exceeds the safe margins and cuts the sides
> off when presented on TV. But, if I bring it into Premiere first, adjust its
> size to within the constraints of safe margins, render, and then import to
> Encore, it fits perfectly. Both videos are the same format, at 720 * 480. I
> can't figure out what is different about the two videos, considering all
> parameters appear to be the same, even after rendering. Anyone have the
> answer?
>
> Also, how can I do a batch process to convert the videos to safe zone
> compliance? Thanks for your time and knowledge.
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