• Adobe After Effects

  text quality

  Posted by John O’brien on April 12, 2006 at 5:32 pm

  I am building a project whose video elements were shot in NTSC DV Widscreen. My comp base on this footage defaults to a 9:5 pixel aspect/ My text output on sample DVD burns using iDVD at Best Quality is poor- especailly with the serifed fonts. What am I probably doing wrong? How you anyon advise me to correct this situation? Thanks.

  John O’Brien

  John O’brien replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Harryjf

  April 12, 2006 at 5:50 pm

  What are you format and codec are you rendering to?

  It sounds like you might me rendering this to a DV format, which will look terrible, especially with serif type.

  If this is for DVD, there is nothing stopping you from rendering to a lossless format, and using that as your source in iDVD.
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  John O’brien

  April 12, 2006 at 5:53 pm

  I am rendering in Animation at 100%- no keyframes or adjustments. I think the text is being screwed up in the translation in aspect ratios between
  the original comp and how iDVD comprsses it but I don’t know for sure.

  J.
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  Harryjf

  April 12, 2006 at 6:16 pm

  Oh yes.. sorry. You are right. iDVD doesn’t handle pixel aspects of 9:5.

  What about this..

  Put the final comp into a d1/dv comp, and fitting the comp to size (opt/command-F or alt/ctrl-F).

  This should deliver the proper aspect that iDVD is looking for.
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  John O’brien

  April 12, 2006 at 6:22 pm

  thanks- I’ve been exposed to this idea before nice to have it on paper.

  J.

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