- Displaying Information in the Project Panel
- Finding Items in a Project
- Sorting Footage in the Project Panel
- Organizing Footage in Folders
- Renaming and Removing Items
- Proxies and Placeholders
- Viewing Footage
- Opening Footage in the Original Application
- The Footage Panel
- Cueing Motion Footage
- Magnifying an Image
- Viewing Safe Zones and Grids
- Rulers and Guides
- Snapshots
- Channels
- Viewing Transparency
- Correcting for Pixel Aspect Ratios
Viewing Safe Zones and Grids
You can superimpose a grid or video-safe zones over an image to better judge its placement. Obviously, these simple visual guides aren't included in the final output. In addition, because video-safe zones indicate the viewable area of standard video monitors, you should display safe zones for images that match television's 4:3 aspect ratio. For more about the safe zones, see the sidebar "Better Safe than Sorry: Video Title- and Action-Safe Zones."
To show video-safe zones and grids:
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In the Footage panel's Grid and Guides pulldown menu
choose the options you want ( Figure 3.60 ):
Title/Action Safe ( Figure 3.61 )
Proportional Grid ( Figure 3.62 )
Grid ( Figure 3.63 )
You can display any combination of zones and guides at the same time.
![03_60_gridsandguidesp.jpg](/content/images/chap3_0321383540/elementLinks/th03_60_gridsandguidesp.jpg)
Figure 3.60 Choose whether you want to view safe zones or grids in the Grids and Guides pull-down menu.
![03_61_safezones.jpg](/content/images/chap3_0321383540/elementLinks/th03_61_safezones.jpg)
Figure 3.61 You can view Title Safe and Action Safe zones…
![03_62_propgrid.jpg](/content/images/chap3_0321383540/elementLinks/th03_62_propgrid.jpg)
Figure 3.62 …a proportional grid…
![03_63_grid.jpg](/content/images/chap3_0321383540/elementLinks/th03_63_grid.jpg)
Figure 3.63 …or a standard grid.