• Adobe After Effects

  Newbie–Red logo problems

  Posted by Outis on June 23, 2005 at 3:42 pm

  Hello, I know this is probably so simple to all of you out there, but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. I have a logo that I’ve imported from photoshop. It’s 255 red mind you. I get it all in there, vector paint it, and output it–blocky, aliased, bad. The little diaganal line is smooth, the quality of the compression is best. What do I do? Is it a function of that much red? I also have white text that comes out fine? And if so how do I change it?

  Thank you

  Charley King replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  June 23, 2005 at 4:25 pm

  Note: many codecs don’t like 255 red.

  Which codec are you using?
  (you should generally be rendering through the output module)

  Steve
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  Invalid User

  June 23, 2005 at 5:20 pm

  Sounds like the old Avid codec problem with Reds.

  Is this problem inherent to the 601 colorspace or the codec?
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  Outis

  June 23, 2005 at 7:59 pm

  I am outputting 10- bit uncompressed to FCP HD. I sent the comp to the render queue…is there another way to output it? I put a small white border around it to help. But it is still aliasing badly on diagonals and curves.

  Thanks so much for your help. I have to get this on a dvd today.
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  Charley King

  June 23, 2005 at 9:31 pm

  [Talia Raine] “Is it a function of that much red?”
  Yes,

  Charlie
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  Outis

  June 23, 2005 at 10:13 pm

  I went back into photoshop and changed it to NTSC colors. The color is much fainter now, but still jagged. Any other suggestions of how to deal with red in text?
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  Outis

  June 23, 2005 at 11:16 pm

  Thanks I will try the scope. It is not being scaled up, I made it purposely big and scaled it down to avoid this. Any suggestions for dealing with red? Will it look bad on a computer monitor and then ok on a tv? I will burn it to disk now and try it.
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  Charley King

  June 24, 2005 at 3:31 pm

  I’m not sure if what you are seeing is jaggies. or NTSC Chroma crawl. Red even at broadcast safe color is a high chroma item, you will get chroma crawl against many other color combinations. Anti-aliasing helps a lot, but usually will still have some crawl, if next to certain backgrounds. Trial and error with borders is the best solution I can think of. Try a tiny border of lesser chroma value it might help the aliasing problem if it is aliasing instead of jaggies.

  Charlie

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