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How do TV-screen UI guidance (Apple tvOS) and a motion-design tool (After Effects) specify grids and margins for video-frame layouts?

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Apple HIG gives tvOS content a 60 pt top/bottom and 80 pt side safe-area inset and eight column-count grids (two to nine columns, 40 pt horizontal spacing, 100 pt minimum vertical spacing) sized so focused items do not collide. If the usable width is 1920 - 2 x 80 = 1760 pt (the 1920 is an assumption, not stated on the page), the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- and 9-column rows tile it exactly, the 7-column row is 1 pt short and the 8-column row is 8 pt short. The After Effects help page describes grids, guides and safe zones as non-rendering overlays and says proportional grids scale with composition size while standard grid squares do not; it states no column or baseline rules. Safe-area percentages are covered in C3-B066-G25 and not repeated.

Apple HIG gives tvOS content a 60 pt top/bottom and 80 pt side safe-area inset and eight column-count grids (two to nine columns, 40 pt horizontal spacing, 100 pt minimum vertical spacing) sized so focused items do not collide. If the usable width is 1920 - 2 x 80 = 1760 pt (the 1920 is an assumption, not stated on the page), the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- and 9-column rows tile it exactly, the 7-column row is 1 pt short and the 8-column row is 8 pt short. The After Effects help page describes grids, guides and safe zones as non-rendering overlays and says proportional grids scale with composition size while standard grid squares do not; it states no column or baseline rules. Safe-area percentages are covered in C3-B066-G25 and not repeated. Curator qualifications: Curator recomputed rows from the HIG tables: 2-6 and 9 columns sum to exactly 1760 pt (n x width + (n-1) x 40), 7 columns to 1759 and 8 columns to 1752, matching the producer's 1 pt and 8 pt shortfalls under the stated 1920 pt assumption. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Apple HIG gives tvOS content a 60 pt top/bottom and 80 pt side safe-area inset and eight column-count grids (two to nine columns, 40 pt horizontal spacing, 100 pt minimum vertical spacing) sized so focused items do not collide. If the usable width is 1920 - 2 x 80 = 1760 pt (the 1920 is an assumption, not stated on the page), the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- and 9-column rows tile it exactly, the 7-column row is 1 pt short and the 8-column row is 8 pt short. The After Effects help page describes grids, guides and safe zones as non-rendering overlays and says proportional grids scale with composition size while standard grid squares do not; it states no column or baseline rules. Safe-area percentages are covered in C3-B066-G25 and not repeated. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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