Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines
Many effects can utilize the outer edges of the viewing screen area. If you are editing material that will be viewed on screens with more limited viewing areas, such as standard televisions, you can use the Safe Title and Safe Action options to provide visual guidelines in the Effect Preview monitor that replicate the actual viewable area on a standard television screen.
For example, you can use the Safe Title option as a template for the area in which you want the effect to operate. In this way, you can avoid the appearance of the effect floating off into a nonviewable area of a standard television screen.
Two outlined boxes appear in the Effect Preview monitor. The inner box is the safe title area. All text and objects should remain within the inner box. The outer box is the safe action area for video display.
To display the Safe Title/Action guidelines in the Effect Preview
monitor, do one of the following:
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In the Tool palette, click the Grid button.
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In the Effect Editor, click the Grid button.
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To open the Effect Editor, select Tools > Effect Editor.
To display the safe title and safe action areas in a Source pop-up
monitor:
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In the Tool palette of the Source pop-up monitor, click the Grid button.
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To display the safe title and safe action areas in the Source/Record
monitor:
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Click in either the Source or Record monitor and choose the Grid
button from the Tool palette.
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