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Working with action- and title-safe areas

Working with action- and title-safe areas - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with action- and title-safe areas

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If you are creating video to be played back on a television set, you need to know about the safe areas. While you are working After Effects shows you the entire video frame all the way out to the edges; however, if you play this back on a television screen, the very edge of the composition will be lost underneath the bezel. Also, unless your viewer has a flat-screen TV, the outer area might also be distorted. If you click on the Grids and Guides button, you can turn on the Title/Action Safe overlay. The outer box is action safe, and the inner box is title safe. The idea is that any important imagery you want the viewer to see should be placed inside of the action-safe zone, and if you add a title, you might want to check that it sits inside the title-safe zone. In this case, I might want to scale it down just a touch to make sure it's completely safe. Now you can toggle on and off the title- action-safe zones using the shortcut, the Apostrophe key. Or you can also press the Option key…

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