• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Font Issues

  Posted by Alan Farris on December 3, 2007 at 10:33 pm

  I’m currently using Final Cut Express, I’ve created a 2 layer lower third using custom gradients and mattes. When I enter my lower third text it is not sharp, the colors bleed and the edges are jagged. Im using white and a grey blue font. Ive tried making the font size really big and scaling it down to fit my lower third, no good! Ive tried different fonts, so far best luck is lucinda grande and Ariel or Ariel Narrow. I do not want to resize my lower third, it kicks A$$. Also on a side note how do i save my lower third as a template. I tried highlighting the two and drag to favorites, does not work so well. I ended up making a freeze frame and leaving it on a “work sequence” I rather save it to a bin, any ideas?

  Thanks
  Alan

  Thaxter Clavemarlton replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  December 4, 2007 at 12:19 am

  It is essential when attempting to monitor the QUALITY of images in FCP that you use an external NTSC VIDEO Monitor (or PAL, if that’s where you are).
  Especially after you render…
  the Canvas is never high-quality (by design) and should not be used to make determinations of image quality of clips or graphics.

  VERY IMPORTANT:

  If you position the graphics, make SURE the VERTICAL setting for each KEY-FRAME (start, stop or hold) is always a EVEN INTEGER. (examples: 4, not 3 / -144, not -143.27 / 336, not 335.62)

  I sometimes forget to check this and I can end up with images that look fuzzy when in-position.

  This info applies to re-positioning ANYTHING on the Timeline: moving video, freeze-frames, internally-generated titles, and imported graphics.

  It can be quite detrimental to the quality of your final output to not double-check this every time you reposition and/or re-size an image.

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