Action Safe Areas

[TOMMO]

I understand the principle of Action Safe Areas and the fact that due to TV overscan some of the picture on a televison will be lost.

The problem is that I am currently encoding and authoring AVI's created in 3D Studio Max (produced by others) into MPEG2 then burning to DVD. When encoded the images on the computer play back fine - complete image - however - on TV some of the image content is lost around the edges. According to my reading up on the subject this is due to overscan and Vegas video allows for a 10% loss of the action zone. When comparing the grid szone to actual image on TV it is quite close.

What I would like to know is to prevent this happening what size should the graphical content be to ensure that this does not happen - or are there any workarounds.

Also if anyone knows how to create a Graphic image (dimensions) for widesvcreen without it all being squished that would be useful too.

The TV standard is PAL.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions

[Dj Petro]

3D Studio Max has Title/Action safe grid that you can turn on. Right click on the viewport name and select configure and there will be a tab for it...can't think of what it says exactly. You turn them on and you will see the grid in your viewport.

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[TOMMO]

Thank you DJ Pedro for the response.

[jsnkc1]

An easy equasion to figure this out is to subtract 10% from your max resolution and that is your Action safe area. Subtract 20% from your max resolution and that is your title safe area