4:3 Safe Title Frame

[lillitnn922]

Maybe a silly question, but I have searched and have found no results regarding VLC

I work in broadcasting, specifically Traffic department. I handle a lot of commercials spots from clients. I'm not in the Creative department though, so I don't do any editing and don't have all the fancy editing programs and such.

Mainly I use VLC just to watch files that I get from clients that don't go through Creative. Because we get so many different file types it's a pain having to open up different players. I watch them and make sure that everything is fine. A few times we have received 16:9 spots from clients that got produced with text out of the 4:3 safe area. I was wondering if there was a plugin/extension that would overlay a 4:3 safe area so that when I view 16:9 spots I could find out if things are within the safe area before making it to air?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Why not use crop to cut them so you can see it?
If they are always the same resolution, why not using the logo filter with the right png?

[lillitnn922]

I did think about just cropping 16:9 spots, so yeah that's an option. I think it would be kinda nice to have a 4:3 frame overlayed so I don't have to switch to 4:3 crop all the time. I was just curious if anyone knew if that was possible with VLC.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

If you have the same resolution, use the logo filter.
Else write the right filter.