Rendering????

[josel]

Hi all,

I have premiere pro 1.5. when i capture a footage at pal 1.067 25 fps and then put that footage into my timeline i do not see the red line to say it has not been renderned. But when i go into my monitor on the top right hand corner i have the safe margins on and the footage fill the whole of the screen? So what i am doing wrong here?
Then when i scale the footage down to fit the safe margiins the red line appears immeadiatley when i have re resized it. What is going on? Please help as i am doing a project for the father in laws birthday.
Please speak in lamen terms as i am new to this premiere pro.

Kind Regards Josel

[guns1inger]

Rendering is the term used to describe what is effectively re-encoding. The safe area is just an overlay. Turning it on does not resize your video to fit, but rather adds an overlay on top so you know where to place titles etc. If you wan't all your image to fall within the safe area then you must resize the image, which will then force premiere to re-render every frame.

Before you do this, think about it in these terms - if you plug the camera into your TV right now and watch the video, it will look exactly the same as it would if you did not resize it in Premiere. So ask yourself - do I really need to do this ?

[josel]

Thankyou

But why is my footage over the safe margins and why is their no red line in my timeline?


Josel

[guns1inger]

Your footage is over the safe margins because your camera shoots right to the edge. The safe margins are arbitrary, based on a average overscan size (look up overscan in the glossery).

You don't get the red line when you load the video the first time because you haven't changed it, so Premiere doesn't need to do anything to it. When you resize it to fit inside the safe margin, you change the image. That change requires Premiere to render, hence the warning and red line.

The safe margins are designed for the positioning of titles and overlays. When a TV show is broadcast and you watch it on your TV, the images are not insode the safe margin. They go right to the edge of the tube. That edge is hidden behind the box that is your TV. How much is covered varies from TV to TV. The safe margin is an attempt to find an area that won't be covered by any TV, so titles are always visible. People who shoot TV shows know the edges will be hidden, and don't put anything important there. Adding safe margins in Premiere does not change the video, they are simply a guide for you.