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I layed off a Perfect End Credit Seq To a DBeta Master. Lots of Scrolling Credits. I used Boris Title 3d. Looks PERFECT on all SD Monitors. When the DBeta gets encoded to DVD via Scenarist Hardware Endcoder. The DVD looks perfect on any regular TV/Monitor. BUT when playing back on a Computer monitor the Scrolling Type breaks up, aliasing so bad you can ‘t read it. What am I doing wrong?
I have a nasty deadline here so please help.
Thanks
Matt
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If it looks fine on digibeta on a pro crt there is nothing wrong on your end.
if it looks bad on a computer monitor there is especially nothing wrong and not your problem.
Computer monitors degrade DVD-VIDEO quality to begin with as square pixel computer monitors soften the non-square mpeg2 video that is DVD.
This is clearly an issue on the encoding end. The compressionist may need to tweak the sonic encoder settings for the end credits, any way you slice it, if it looks perfectly fine on digibeta, then your job is done.
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Hi Matt,
I’m with Chris. If it plays well in any interlaced monitor have passed the test.
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Without contradicting the previous posts, even though you seem to have properly handled your footage and setups, you could still have a problem. I don’t know how much Scenarist can be tweaked on a shot-by-shot basis. If it can’t be adjusted to get a good result, you might have to look to what you can do to help the text roll. You could slow down the roll speed and make the type a bit bigger and bolder.
Ultimately your trouble is obviously due to interlacing on the computer monitor. Your video is interlaced, as it should be for NTSC playback. For computer playback, either your video needs to be deinterlaced or your player software needs to deinterlace it for you. Strictly on the playback side, some DVD player software does a better job of scaling and deinterlacing than others. Roxio Cineplayer is a favorite of mine. In some players, the deinterlacing can be switched on or off (Apple DVD player for example). Try it both ways to see which is better.
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There is another possible factor contributing to your problem. I’ll bet that you are watching your DVD play back from a software player in full-screen mode. This takes your measly 720 pixel wide video (you can’t do anything about the size, it is what it is) and blows it up to whatever screen resolution you have, which, if it’s a good size monitor, is a HUGE amount of blow-up, complete with a HUGE amount of aliasing. Your software DVD player should have the option to play the video in its native size, where it will look worlds better, albeit very small, but it should NEVER look clean in full screen (on a computer).
Apologies if you already knew all of this,
Will
Will Eccleston
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regular hollywood produced movies have the same problem with pc playback.
Soft picture and jittery credits are not uncommon.
Scenarist would not be the app to tweak it would be the Sonic Solutions Encoder.
If it plays perfectly fine on a digibeta to a crt monitor, its really not your problem to solve.
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