CompuServe Messages

Hi Maura. safe zone there are 2 "legal" def of safe [SMPTE recommended practices RP 273 – iff you realy care!<g>] 90% for action – 80% for text I made some pencil marks on computer monitors bezel draw diagonal lines from corners make 2 squares 80 & 90 % of your 640×480 pixels (you do the math <g>) get the corners on the diagonal lines stay inside boxes! hot colors/illegal they may not look bad on preview first copy – but bleed in later generations or thru editing go to color palette switch to HLS saturation is last all colors shoud be less than about 75% (of 255 – you do more math!) I think there is a poco program on libray that helps make wholesale desaturation of pallets – DESAT.POC, but may be more trouble than you need. Whites to greys aren't realy saturated. if you ran NTSC check – you're probly ok dubbing studio should have waveform/vector scope to check – ask any time a copy is made of tape it goes down in quality. even going to "better" type. however if dub studio has TBD and cares they may be able to tweek things so its ok most Broadcast houses don't have any thing as low as VHS – many reasons – but it just is. If your FLC is in good shape and you have machine that it plays smoothly on [in AAPLAYHI] then all you need is "good" video card best is one that puts out component (vs NTSC) so can get dumped real time to BETA SP like some targa cards one of the service bureaus should help if it plays unevenly – motion is jerky then frame accurate is help You don't have to go to sequential tgas! there is utility called FLITAPE comes with anipro should work with at your service bureau Your client may need education in cost vs value. If client wants stuff on TV , and wants it to look good – then needs to pay price for all your work. generaly due to lack of experence I have had clients that knew difference, but were trying to get me to pay for it (in work) if you find your customer doesn't appreciate the value, and refuses to accept education then find new customer. dave