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82 4. Show Options

The Safe Zone

The Show TV Safe Zone in Previews option is designed to help you make
sure that all of the important parts of your show are going to be seen
regardless of the type of display being used.

A little Safe Zone history lesson - Older model televisions used big picture
tubes. These tubes were held in place by plastic bezels that wrapped
around the front edges of the glass picture tubes. In most cases, these
plastic edges would actually cover up some of the display area of the
picture tube. This meant that you wouldn’t see a full scene if that scene took
up the entire picture tube area.
The Safe Zone is a border that you can use as a visual guide to help you
estimate what parts of the slide frame might be cut off by an older
television like this. When you enable this option in ProShow, in the Preview
you will see a pattern of diagonal lines around the outside edge. This is the
area defined as the Safe Zone. If you're concerned that parts of your show
may be cut off when viewed, simple enable this option and keep your the
best parts of your show confined to this area.

The Show TV Safe Zone in Previews pane gives you the horizontal and
vertical sizes of the Safe Zone in percentages of the total slide frame. You
can change these if you feel that the Safe Zone doesn’t quite meet the look
you want.