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rough fonts in avi imported into Premiere
Hi there,
I’m trying to generate my titles in Flash, exporting them as an avi. The settings I am using are: 720px x 480px, maintaining aspect ratio, using 16bit color depth and smoothing. The resulting avi file looks great when I view it in Windows Media Player or After Effects 5.5. However once I import the avi file into Premiere 6, the fonts have rough edges.
I get the same results when I export the avi file from flash using 24 bit color, or 32 bit color with alpha.
I even tried exporting the avi file from After Effects and using that one, just to make sure Premiere is importing a file last touched by another Adobe product. But even though the avi file exported from AE looks great in Windows Media Player, it still looks jagged in Premiere.
All the other movie clips I am using in Premiere look great, and they are all 720 x 480. (None of them use text).
I am sure I am making some kind of basic mistake. Does anyone know what it could be?
BTW, I am using Flash to generate my titles simply because it is easier to get the look I want. I need to be able to run dissolves on multiple text elements independently. Plus keeping my titles in one external avi file keeps my Premiere workspace cleaner. But if you know of a better solution for creating these titles, please let me know.
thanks very much for your suggestions.
p.s.: sorry — I accidentally submitted the same post to the after effects forum. This submission corrects that.
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3 Replies
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Badmin,
I m not sure if you can turn on the transparency in an avi with alpha on in PremPro, however, I always export flash in .tga w/ alpha format and then import these sequences as one clip into Premiere. Then turn on the transparency, apply the alpha filter.
Another possibility is that you may need to render them out to see if this is just becuase of the preview? Also, viewing the fonts, especially if they are not very big, on computer mon is very different than viewing them on external TV. Last, some fonts and their sizes, color uses, may not suite for certain video uses.Perry
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Flash font rendering can be a problem if you use an non-embedded font. Could this be part of the problem?
Nevertheless, since have AE, I would have thought that you would do very much better to make your complex title animations in AE rather than Flash and take advantage of the interoperability between AE and Premiere Pro. By exporting from AE using Uncompressed in Millions+ colour space you should end up with a viable alpha channel in Premiere Pro.
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thanks for your suggestions. As it turned out, part of the problem was that the fonts look much worse when previewing than in the actual rendered movie. Another problem was the compression codec and settings. Flash didn’t give me many options, but selecting the right codec and settings in Premiere was important. H.263 resulted in jagged edges, cinepak was better for the fonts but much worse for everything else, indeo5.10 fonts were ugly…. finally sorenson3 gave me the best quality. I used 100% quality and ended up with a big file. But that was on purpose, since I was going to be compressing it all again with Quick Time Pro to make the flv. I did that using 2 pass encoding, & high quality, and I’m very happy with my results.
I would still like to learn more about codecs and compression. There are so many to pick from I always spend much more time than I should rendering tests to figure out the right one.
And as someone else has mentioned, I should have used AE for the titles. I didn’t because it was all set up in Flash already, and I am much more familiar with that environment. I would love to learn AE — just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Thanks again.
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