BORDER PROBLEM

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Roger

Greetings everyone,

I have several scanned photos which I am including in a
movie. I have moviemaker-2, I am transferring to a Sony
camcorder. On the lower part of these pictures I inserted
my name with a photo editor. All these pictures are .jpg.
when I play the movie on the computer my name shows up
clearly however when transferring to film, the bottom is
slightly cut off. I tried resizing the pictures and it
does the same thing. My name is not inserted exactly on
the bottom border of the picture however as I said earlier
the bottom is cut off just exactly enough so that it is
not visible, there are a couple of exceptions where I may
have placed my name about a 16th of an inch higher so in
these cases you can see the top border of my name.
Because I now have all these pictures with . JPG. format,
I have no way of raising my name up slightly. I would
have to actually paint over my name then go to a photo
editor and reinsert my name a little higher on all of
these pictures, now what a mess that would be. If anyone
has any thoughts I would certainly appreciate it. Under
certain other conditions this wouldn't bother me a bit,
but where the film is going it is important that my name
be visible on these pictures. Thanks so much for any help
Roger
 
Hello there,

Have you considered adding height to you pictures??? In PhotoShop that
would be an increase of the canvas size and at the same time positioning the
existing image at the top....the new blank bit at the bottom can then be
coloured to suit.

Take note though that if you add to the height and not the width, this
will change the aspect ratio and in this case make people look fatter than
they are. The solution to that would be to add a little to the sides as
mentioned above

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
 
Roger

What you are seeing is not a fault but unfortunately by design.

Its called TV Safe area overscan and has historic reasons... when tv picture
boundaries were not properly captured and caused flickering at the edges. So
the wise technical people of the time thought up scaling up the actually
captured image a bit so that the bad edges would get cropped away... It
became widespread and is sort of standard now.

Anyway you have to live with it and allow upto 5%-7% area around image edges
to be subject to TV Safe area overscan. Some TVs do it more than others.

So better place your watermark slightly inside the images.
 
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