MSP8 - Title Safe Area

tgill · Post by **tgill** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:33 pm

I notice in the preference options that I can set a title safe area. How can I see the title safe area in the preview or source windows?[/b]

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:58 pm

As far as I know its not in source or preview window, but only int title edding mode. There is a button below the window which will show you a frame.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:16 pm

If it helps you can download some layout guides here
http://www.steve-jones.pwp.blueyonder.c ... Guides.zip
and place them onto one of the video tracks then remove the guide when no longer required

Steve J

tgill · Post by **tgill** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:21 pm

Which button below the window will show me a frame.... please elaborate.

Are you refering to the title window only.. or the3 preview / source window.

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:34 pm

Please see manal page 126. Button number 15 (Title save area). I you dont have a printed manual, you can download a pdf version from uleads download area.

tgill · Post by **tgill** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:48 pm

ok I see that. I was hoping for something on the main display not in the edit window. thanks anyway

tgill · Post by **tgill** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:50 pm

What are UFO files and how come they appear all white. I tried to put alpha channel but no joy... please advise

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:14 am

tgill
Sorry if I may have confused you with the layout guides, they were created for use with my "DVD Menu From Scratch Tutorial"
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=11378

I was at work when I read your post and thought you could just drop the UFO (Ulead File for Objects) files onto a video track, but as you discovered they only show up as white.

You can still use them if you do the following:
Don't place the layout guides on the video track as I previously suggested but instead
Right click a video and select "Overlay Options"
In the drop down box "Mask" select Image Matte. To the right of that drop down box you will see another box with 3 small full stops ... click this to open up a "Load Image" box and navigate to the Layout guides. The one named LIBD0000.UFO is 4.3
The one named LIBD0001.UFO is 16.9 Ignore the remaining one as that is something to do with the DVD Menu Tutorial.
Now Select from the Type drop down list "Colour Key", move your mouse over the white "Overlay Clip" preview screen (just a big white box - or so it seems) and an eye dropper appears. Now left click.
Finally put a tick mark in the box "Invert overlay area" and now you will see the layout guide.

You can later remove the overlay by selecting the Effects Manager.
I don't know if they will help with your particular problem or not but you can give it a shot.

Again sorry for the confusion
Regards
Steve J

tgill · Post by **tgill** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:26 pm

yeah.. this does work. thanks ... I contact Ulead and finally got a message from one of the actual ULead people (not their buyout company Intervideo). I recommended this as a future update in their next release.... hope they listen

mathis · Post by **mathis** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:13 am

I, too, thought there was a box around my preview screen. Maybe that was in VS6 or 7? It's not in VS9 or MSP8. Normally, I don't worry about that because the DVDs I create are shown on a projector screen at church and it's big enough to get the whole thing. But I created a Video/Photo Montage for my cousin the other day and discovered that I need that box around the screen because there were a lot of picture cut off on his Mom's TV. Fortunately, he's got a wide-screen, so it'll be okay, but I need to start worrying about the edges just in case, so it would be nice to have that option again.

I also thought that some time ago, I had found a black box jpeg with a yellow border that someone had posted here. When placed on the time-line and the video/photos overlayed, the yellow part was on the edges so you could keep the picture inside when on TV. I have searched my computer and this forum over and cannot find it. With this jpeg, you didn't have to use the image matte option like Steve mentions here. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please let me know as I would like to have it again.

Thanks...
Mathis....

rwernyei · Post by **rwernyei** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:50 pm

I created a bright yellow TGA image file and saved it with transparency so it keeps the alpha channel. All one needs to do is open editor import this TGA file and overlay for the entire size of your project and it will provide you instant feedback with the proper safe area throughout the editing process. Last step remove it and that's it.

Email or PM me and I will send you my 10% Title-safe TGA zip file.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:20 pm

None of these workrounds would have been necessary if someone had taken notice of my request many months ago for this feature to be included into future enhancements (such as the recent service pack)
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 8242#38242

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:25 pm

Both from a developers and from a managers point of view there are usually different classes (or levels) of bugs. The exact definitions vary from company to company but are e.g. like that:
categorie A: crash with loos of data (or at worsed damage of hardware)
categorie B: wrong behaviour, wrong or unusable results
categorie C: errors in user interface
categorie D: wishes
So damaged project files would have been A, flickering output video B, the not working zoom C, introduction of a grid D. Of course highest priority is given to resolve type A. But I hope Ulead will not stop here but instead surprise us soon with a service pack 2.
I have put the top of my wishes to the list pointed out by Steve.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:52 am

I don't consider your Category D a bug, defined as something which causes a malfunction. In Category D, I could say, "I wish MSP8 was so intuitive that this forum was no longer necessary". This is a pious wish, impossible to realise, but it has nothiong to do with bugs

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:26 pm

Of course D are not bug, so they are also labeled as wish. But all are managed usually the same way (with a bug tracking software). One reason is not to use two different systems, an other the entries in such a system have a (change request) number, which can be entered later in a version control system, and one reason is, that the categorie of an entry changes sometimes. Maybe it figures out that it is more serious than first thought, maybe a tester has claimed it to be type A and a developer tells: no, this is by design, at most D

So now you know the reason, why the bugs you reported are never removed

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MSP8 - Title Safe Area

MSP8 - Title Safe Area

Button below the window???

title safe ...

Hey sjj1805

works good