Vegas - what you see is not what you get

I'm trying to find a way in Vegas where when I view a video using the
"Video Preview in External Monitor" I can only see the video that's in
the safe area.
The video I'm working on his unwanted objects which are outside the
safe area but when viewed on the computer monitor using the video
preview in external mnitor option I can still see the unwanted
objects.
Is there an option in Vegas that will only show me the picture that's
within the safe area when viewed as a preview on external monitor?

Regards Brian

 

No there isn't.
You can see them because they're still in your footage.
The only way to get rid of them is to use Track Motion (or Pan/Crop if
it's a specific clip) to zoom in on the original image.
Be advised that either way you do it, the source footage (if it's SD to
begin with) will be degraded because you're zooming in on it.
The only way it won't be degraded is if your source footage was HD and
you're rendering to SD as there's more to start with and you can get
away with cropping it.

Mike

 

Hi Mike.

In my case I only need to zoom in a small amount to get past the
objects that are on the left and right sides of the picture so there
should not be too much loss in picture quality.

I still can't understand the use of the safe area square if a rendered
video still contains the objects that are outside the safe area range.

Regards Brian

 

it shows you (roughly) what would be seen on a crt screen - given their
overscanning.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area is a good place to start.

Mike