Expanding a Frame

JohnJ wrote on 6/22/2016, 11:00 AM
Hello,
Sometimes when I edit a shot I need to expand it to get rid of an obstruction (such as an elbow or hand) at the edge. I do this by using the pan an crop event tool, grabbing the frame and dragging it until the obstruction disappears.
The problem occurs in knowing how much to drag the frame as when rendered to a disc it is sometimes clear that I have expanded the shot too much or too little.
Would somebody please inform me if there is a guide frame or similar which would help me avoid the trial and error approach I have used so far?
Thanks,
JohnJ

Comments

Former user wrote on 6/22/2016, 11:05 AM
Unfortunately, this can vary based upon how much "cutoff" a TV displays. Older 4 x3 TVs generally cut off around 10% of your picture. Newer flat screens go from cutting off the same to not cutting off any. The best thing to do is create a grid with numbers and view that on the TV you normally use and judge how much cut off your TV has.

But remember that someone else's TV may be different. There is no standard.
rs170a wrote on 6/22/2016, 11:20 AM
If it's a stationary shot and the obstruction isn't that large, I'll take a still of it without the obstruction and then drop that over top and use Pan/Crop to mask out the offending part.

Mike
JohnJ wrote on 6/22/2016, 12:06 PM
Thank you
wwaag wrote on 6/22/2016, 12:34 PM
If you want a simple way of determining your TV's over scan try this.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?forumid=4&messageid=923581

For the newer LCD TV's (at least the one's I have) I've found it's usually 5%. For editing, I usually set a safe zone at 3%, so if anything falls outside that frame, I can be assured it won't be displayed on the newer TVs.

wwaag

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Former user wrote on 6/22/2016, 1:14 PM
thanks WWAAG, that was something like what I suggested.