1. Graphics and Design
Unit 10

2. Essential Area of Screen
When creating graphics, leave a margin around the edges of the screen
This is due to edge distortion aggravated by the production and transmission process
Keep all video within the inner 90% of your screen
This is called the safe video area

3. Safe Video Area
You will always lose 10% of your video along the horizontal and vertical edges

4. Safe Title Area Inside the safe video area resides the safe title area
All graphics should be placed within the inner 80% of your screen.

5. Safe Video and Title Areas

6. Intelligibility Consider using block letters
Letters with script or fine detail do not translate well in video

7. Color and Brightness Use high contrast colors
If you can’t see it well on a black and white monitor, you do not have a good enough contrast ratio

8. Titling Graphics and Effects Into a Video Switcher
Keying – A special effect used in titling in which one video source (usually a character generated graphic) appears as opaque letters over the background video

9. Key Example

10. Titling Graphics and Effects Into a Video Switcher
Mattes – A special video effect that combines three separate sources: character generator titles, a color from a matte generator, and background video

11. Matte Example

12. Titling Graphics and Effects Into a Video Switcher
Chroma Key – A special matte key effect in which a particular colored area (generally blue or green) is eliminated from one shot and filled with new video information from another source

13. Chroma Key Example

14. Advanced Tecniques
Compositing – A computer generated program that allows you to layer several different graphic items over the main video image

15. Compositing Example

16. Graphics and Design
Unit 10