• Adobe After Effects

  Red Jagged Text/Curves

  Posted by Jesse1313 on July 13, 2006 at 7:51 pm

  Hi,
  I have seen this problem on creativecow, and on the internet, but I can’t find a solution. Here is my back story and what I’ve done thus far.
  I created 2 compositions. 1) 720×480 and 2) 720×486 (just to test and make sure it wasn’t my ration). Both were the exact same composition. My compostion had red text and red curves. I render it out using the “best” settings, “lower (even) field first” and render. I have used the Animation codec, and the Avid Meridian codec. My rendered quicktime animation looks great. When I import it into the avid, everything that is curved and red like if I’m using red text is jagged. My text looks great, unless it’s stroked by a red color. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I refuse to believe that I have to tell my clients that they can not have red in any of the projects! I also refuse to believe there isn’t a work around, different codec, or way to render that will fix this. I will also post this message in the Avid creative cow forum. Please please please help me resolve this.

  Thank you,
  Jesse

  Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need further details about import/export settings, render settings or whatever… in order to solve this. I will post my results and hopefully my fix to the site as soon as I get/come up with one!

  Filip Vandueren replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Matt Wafaie

  July 13, 2006 at 10:34 pm

  Have you exported any of your timeline in AVID? Export a test section lossless and see if it’s just appearing that way on your monitor as red is a notoriously poor NTSC color.
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  Jesse1313

  July 13, 2006 at 10:45 pm

  I haven’t exported a portion of my sequence, but I’ll try that tomorrow. I have however, played my sequence into a real time encoder and my encoded .avi file had the same “de-interlaced” look. What’s strange is that my quicktime, looks great… I import and it looks bad.
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  Matt Wafaie

  July 13, 2006 at 11:14 pm

  weird that it’s only reds. Have you tried changing your color settings? It could be a YUV RGB incompatibility.
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  Filip Vandueren

  July 14, 2006 at 12:19 am

  If your Avid is compressing agressively like the DV codec, any harsh colourcontrast would become blocky, red always seems to be one of the most obvious victims.

  Check the colourspace for the codec, if it says something like 4:2:2, you’re out of luck short of blurring the chroma or using another codec.

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