You??™ll see the darkened areas on the left and right
of the interface (through the Camera view) are minimal, compared to the first
640?—480 resolution. These areas represent the scene that is outside of the frame,
based on the resolution you??™ve set.
A quick way to hide any open panels is to press the Tab key.To unhide, press Tab again.
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8. Press p again to open the Camera Properties
panel. Grab the mini slider button next to
Pixel Aspect Ratio and drag it back and
forth. Figure 5.9 shows the slider button.
You should see the safe area field of view
changing in Layout.
As an animator, keep in mind that the pixel aspect
ratio affects your renderings. Changing the resolution
changes the size of the image, whereas changing the pixel aspect ratio changes the target
pixel shape, which also can distort your final output if it is not set properly. Always
remember what the target display device is, and set your resolution and aspect ratio
accordingly. For example, if you are rendering an animation for computer video and accidentally
set Resolution to D1 (standard for NTSC Widescreen broadcast video), your final
animation will appear stretched when imported into an animation recorder or nonlinear
editing suite.
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