User Manual

Using Safe Area Overlays
If you’re working on a broadcast program and you want to adhere to guidelines for title safe and
broadcast safe, you can choose to display overlays that indicate where these regions are in the
Edit page.
To do so, choose View > Safe Area > On.
The available safe area overlays
If necessary, there are a number of ways you can customize this overlay by choosing one of the
other options in the View > Safe Area submenu to toggle specific parts of the safe area overlay
on and off. These options include:
 Extents: An outline showing the exact outer edge of the frame. Especially useful when
the safe markers are set to an aspect ratio other than that currently used by the Viewer.
 Action: An outline showing the outer 90% action safe area of the frame.
 Title: An outline showing the outer 80% title safe area of the frame.
 Center: A crosshairs showing the center of the frame.
 Aspect: Enables use of the View > Select Aspect Ratio submenu to change the aspect
ratio of the safe area markers. You can choose among the following aspect ratios: 1.33
(a.k.a. 4:3), 1.66, 1.77 (a.k.a. 16:9), 1.85, and 2.35.
Custom Action and Title Safe Areas
The Editing panel of the User Preferences has a new “Use custom safe area overlays” checkbox
that, when turned on, displays Action Area and Title Area fields that let you set a custom
percentage for each. The default values are 93% for Action Area and 90% for Title Area.
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