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  Text in DVCPRO HD

  Posted by Michael Colin on September 9, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  Greetings. I can’t seem to get my text to look decent in a DVCPRO HD 720p24 timeline. By the time I encode to an SD DVD, it looks pretty rough. Appreciate any tips/thoughts.

  Thanks,

  Michael Colin

  Richard Boghosian replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  September 10, 2008 at 1:29 am

  What generator are you using? What font are you using? What color are you using? I do titles in DVCPRO HD all the time and they look great. When I work on a DV project and use titles I cringe….

  Shane

  

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  Michael Colin

  September 10, 2008 at 1:42 am

  Hi, Shane. It’s a sans serif font (Arial?), white on black, pretty small size (22 points or so). Just using the FCP text generator. Also tried using a Photoshop file and a Shake-generated clip. It looks okay in the native format, but looks pretty bad at the DVD stage. Thought it might be the codec, but I guess not.

  Thanks,

  Michael Colin
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  Shane Ross

  September 10, 2008 at 2:43 am

  Well, you are compressing the footage to MPEG 2…and that is a serif font. It might not compress well. So the issue is not the font on the timeline, but how it looks after compression…so the issue is in the compression to DVD. Since I am no expert there…I use the presets…I can’t help much.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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  Richard Boghosian

  September 16, 2008 at 12:15 am

  FCP “Text” makes lousy type in any timeline. use the “Boris Title 3d” that comes free with every FCP Studio package. Much, much cleaner

  Richard Boghosian
  Bogh AV Productions

  FCP 6.03 Intel 2.8 8 Core Apple X-Raid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe

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