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Import Assets / Safe Zones
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When you want to make sure that your viewers see the content the way you designed it, which means that the actor's heads don't get chopped off above the eye or that the text shows up just half way, you want to incorporate what's known as a Safe Zone. Now, as you can see, I have my menu open and I can preview my menu and I can see all my buttons and I can see the graphics here and yes, I did get this out of the library under the General category. This is the Blue Notes Menu and what I did was I simply used the Direct Selection Tool to grab some text and push it up here just to make a point. Now, let's say that you're designing your DVD and you're ready to go. You're ready to author this and go to duplication. So people go home and put the DVD in and they can't read it because you didn't use a Safe Zone before you started to place your elements. So as Safe Zone can be found right here with this button and you click it and you see that we have these little two boundaries that show up, these little fields. So let's talk about what they are. The outermost field is what's known as an Action-Safe Zone. In other words, if you have an actor and he's fighting an alien from space, you don't want to have the alien's head up here. You want it to be inside of this region; the most important parts. The eyes, the mouth, that kind of thing. And of course you can leave some other things hanging out like the rest of the head and the body can be off screen as it comes into the view, but for the main sequence you want to make sure that the actor and the alien are inside this region and you want to make sure that the innermost region is for your text. So we can see that the Blue Note is going to get cut off because it's even past the Action-Safe Zone. So don't forget to just grab your Direct Selection Tool, the white arrow, and click and just move your content down when necessary so that people can definitely, definitely read your stuff instead of it being off screen. So once again, this is going to be inside the Safe Zone for text. Let me grab the other guy, move him down and now I don't have to worry about this. This is not getting cut off. And if you have an actor once again and he's talking, you want to make sure that his head is inside this region. So once again, Safe Zones. These are toggled by clicking this button right here and it's a really good thing to always do this to preflight your DVD before you author it, just to absolutely make sure that all the action and all the text and your credits are going to be seen by your intended audience.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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