Title Safe

The Title Safe Area is the smaller portion of the screen where text and credits are allowed to appear. Without it, text that is too close to the edges of a screen can be difficult to read, and might even get chopped off on certain screens:

The exact dimensions of the Title Safe Area depend on your Raster, whether you're making Broadcast or Cinema deliverables, and some other factors. It's best to confirm them with your post team or distributor.

If credits content strays outside of the Title Safe Area, you may fail quality control checks when delivering your film or series. No one likes QC failures. Endcrawl helps you avoid them: your credits will always be confined to the Title Safe Area you've set.

Setting Title Safe

You can change your Endcrawl project's Title Safe Area under the Settings tab. Typical values are:

• 80% of the Active Image Area width, for scrolling credits
• 90% of the Active Image Area width and height, for static cards

Scrolls vs Cards and Title Safe

With scrolling credits, content is allowed to touch the bottom and top of the Active Image Area as it enters and leaves the frame. For this reason, you'll only set a Title Safe X (width) value in Endcrawl for scrolls.

With static cards, credits content usually isn't allowed to touch any of the four sides of the Active Image Area. You'll set values for both Title Safe X (width) and Title Safe Y (height) in Endcrawl.

Scrolling credits with lots of content never violate Title Safe: they simply get taller and longer.

However, a static card with too much content may overflow that card's Title Safe Area into the forbidden zone below. When Endcrawl detects this in a render, you'll get a "Render Incomplete" email. For your convenience, the email will link to each individual card that has violated Title Safe. Before you can successfully render, you'll need to fix these issues by Saving Space or Splitting Cards.

HD/UHD Center-Crop Safe

First, some background.

HD and 2k rasters are often confused. But 2k rasters are actually slightly wider: 128 pixels wider to be exact, since 2k = 2048 pixels wide, and HD = 1920 pixels wide. The same goes for the oft-confused UHD and 4k. They're different things!

If you only deliver a 2k render to your post team, they may be tempted to resize it ever so slightly to produce an HD deliverable. Resizing is disastrous for end credits and scrolls in particular. Never resize!

The HD Center-Crop Safe option helps with this. When enabled, it lets your post team safely center-crop a 2k Endcrawl render to turn it into an HD render. (Center-cropping just means removing those extra 128 pixels in total from the right and left sides of every frame.)

There's only one potential pitfall here: if you had an 80% Title Safe at 2k, your credits content now occupies 85% of the narrower HD frame after the center-crop. That would be a Title Safe violation! But with HD Center-Crop Safe enabled, Endcrawl narrows your 2k Title Safe Area just slightly to 75%, so that your Title Safe Area after the center-crop to HD is exactly 80%. This makes center-cropping from 2k to HD safe.

The same logic applies for 4k and UHD rasters.