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Text looks bad
Ok, in all honesty I’ve been a long time FCP user, so I apologize if this is a noob question. However, when I bring over some graphics I’ve created in photoshop the text looks muddy. I’ve tried brining it over using both square and non-square versions and no matter what I do, the quality is pretty poor. The image was created at twice the size it needed to be, so I have the pixel resolution. The text looks bad in preview, after render, and after export.
Are there any settings I need to adjust or is there anything I can do to get the image to look better?
Here is a side by side with the image I created and how it looks during playback.
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In the SEQUENCE settings, make sure “Maximum render quality” is checked. This will help for scaling things down.
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This looks like an interlaced one field view setting in program monitor from an interlaced timeline. I would also suggest that the thickness of the lines are perhaps a little too thin when scaled down too. Let us know how the maximum render tick helps. I use PhotoShop text and graphics quite a hit and don’t see unacceptable results. Working in interlaced vs progressive makes a difference.
Jb
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I increased the render settings to maximum and the text still looks the same. Where would I change the interlace settings you are speaking of? Is that a project setting or a sequence settings?
Dragzz
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Ok, I saw on another post that the default settings for Premier aren’t exactly great. Quick question. Is there a way to change your project settings after you’ve completed the project? Would I need to redigitize the footage or is there a way for Premiere to de-interlace the footage that it already captured?
I’m really thinking the interlacing is the issue at this point.
Dragzz
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You have got the preview set at 100 it should read ‘fit’.
Also set the playback at full resolution and make sure your still is the same size as the sequence setting.
I think the font is too slim needs to be a bit fatter.
Some background info on text, ist for DV but also applies to HD.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles.php -
I’ve done everything everyone has mentioned and the text still looks awful. What I’ve found is that when I first drop the graphic down onto the timeline it looks great in the preview window. After I hit return and let the graphic render it looks like crap. For some reason the renderer is reducing the quality of the graphic.
Any idea how I can fix this? I have all of my settings at maximum render quality and maximum depth and it still looks terrible after render….
Dragzz
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Just did some additional renders. The text does look a bit better now upon export, but still looks terrible in the preview window. (*Obviously the export is all I care about.)
This was my first time trying Premiere after using FCP for about 10 years. To be honest, I like FCP better, but I thought I would test the waters after all of the new changes in FCP X.
Dragzz
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Hi Matt,
The Quality of the Render depends on the codec being used to render a Preview, for preview purposes. Its a different way of working than with FCP whereby everything is perhaps converted to ProRes and so the timeline is also rendering to ProRes.
You can change the Preview Rendering Codec to something that better represents the final output you want. The way PPro leverages a systems ability to playback all the different codecs it can use natively means that “renders” for preview purposes outside of a 3rd Party (AJA BMD etc) are by default using an MPEG-2 codec at 50% Quality for playback ease. Exports go to the original source and come out with the best quality from the source not the “render file” unless you ask it to use the render files with a tick box in the Export Settings.
It’s a different way of working to FCP, and in my opinion having worked with FCP since its early day in 2001 I do find PPro a superior way to “work” and knowing the paths for export I find it less “rendering” as even though a clip in the timeline might be “RED” which means it can’t be played back at all in FCP, could still playback half OK without the need to render at all in PPro. I “work” way faster in PPro than in FCP as I don’t need to render anywhere near as much to see if something is ‘working’ or not. Final Playback to tape requires rendering, sure but I usually output a master file to match the “tape” codec (DV, BMD for DigiBeta) etc and that render is from the source files not any “Previews” I may have rendered (and I hardly ever render while working.
Just my 2c.
Was I right about the sequence being interlaced and the program showing only 1 field? Setting the Pause Resolution to Full and Both Fields gives a more accurate “look” 🙂
– JB
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