Overscan - not displaying titles correctly

aljaxon · #1 (**permalink**) 03-31-2005, 11:03 AM

i spent ages creating and aligning titles on my home movie only to find that 2 tvs in my house cut off the picture roughly co-inciding with the outermost of the two white rectangles in the title creation screen in premire pro
instead of reducing overscan on my tvs (remote lost on one!!) i would like to try to reduce the size of the picture i output from prem pro
is this possible?
what is the easiest way to do this?
cheers

Alan Mills · #2 (**permalink**) 03-31-2005, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by aljaxon

I spent ages creating and aligning titles on my home movie only to find that 2 tvs in my house cut off the picture roughly co-inciding with the outermost of the two white rectangles in the title creation screen in premire pro

Those lines are there specifically as a guide to this problem. That's what they're there for.

instead of reducing overscan on my tvs (remote lost on one!!) I would like to try to reduce the size of the picture I output from prem pro
is this possible?
what is the easiest way to do this?
cheers

Why not cure the problem rather than a symptom and 'correct' the titles you've produced?
Or, as a second favourite, why not reduce the clip size (using PIP techniques) when the titles are on the timeline?

aljaxon · #3 (**permalink**) 03-31-2005, 01:15 PM

cheers for reply fellow alan
there are about 50 titles so an easier option would be preferred
PIP?
here comes another google/ help search
cheers
al

Alan Mills · #4 (**permalink**) 03-31-2005, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by aljaxon

PIP?

picture-in-picture - usually done by shrinking (scaliing?) the image when on the timeline and repositioning.
I don't do this very often. Do it from the movement controls.

OnTheWay · #5 (**permalink**) 04-01-2005, 11:06 AM

what did you think the retangles were for?

crop marks!

Batmae · #6 (**permalink**) 05-03-2005, 07:36 AM

i guess the fastest way to do that is export your file then scale down everything.