Does clipping on TV still record on VHS?

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 10:57 pm

OK. I've played around with my new video card and I learned why my earlier recordings in the past were "funky" - never played with the dimension settings. Well, I've calibrated everything as best I can but I notice that because of the nature of TV, the image when resized to full (or close to it) tends to clip just a little bit from the edges.

When I record onto VHS for the conventions will it still "capture" all of the image onto tape, or is it only what is displayed on screen?

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:17 am

The videotape will record the full frame, although you won't be able to see it all on a normal TV.

If you capture the videotape back to a computer, you would be very silly, but you would recover the full-sized frame.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:52 pm

Ok, so I resized the dimensions on TV to max resolution, granted it clips a little from the edges - that doesn't matter? It'll still look fine when projected on the movie screens at the conventions?

Org Profile · Post by **VicBond007** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:36 pm

Clipping is caused by the electron gun in the tv hitting the edges of the tube. Rest assure, what appears "clipped" is not really clipped and will display in full on an LCD projector or a large tv. However, if your general audience medium is the television, it'd be best to move whatever you've got hanging over the edges, in by 10% each direction and that defines the minimum safe area that will be shown on all tvs regardless of size. For cons, you are fine unless what you want seen goes RIGHT up to the edge.