View finder: 1080 w/ SD center-cut & safe zones

Kevin R wrote on 3/16/2012, 4:40 PM

I built this "view finder" image and thought I'd share:

http://tek4.com/pub/VF1080-480CenterCut.png

This is a 1920x1080 transparent PNG which provides action/title safe marks for both HD and SD. Also provided are center-cut marks for SD so you can see what will be cropped when down-converting from 16:9 to 4:3. The SD marks are calculated for NTSC DV (480).

Place the image on a video track above the rest to overlay the viewfinder on your timeline. Adjust opacity to taste (for a less prominent display). Select "mute" to turn on/off.

Comments/suggestions invited.

Comments

filmy wrote on 3/17/2012, 11:15 PM

Hey - if you can make a version for Magic Lantern that would be killer.

There are slightly different versions depending on the camera but you can read about it here: Custom cropmarks . (For example it notes that there is less free memory avialable on the 60D, so you should make your cropmarks smaller)

To see some of the available ones: Magic Lantern Cropmark repository