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  pixelated text in Sony Vegas 8

  Posted by Damian Turner on November 14, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  I’m having a problem with text pixelating when I render video files out of vegas. Whether the text is generated in vegas or imported from an external source, I keep having this problem. Even when I create outlines in illustrator, I get the same effect. Is there anything I can do to stop this from happening? Also, I heard something about having to use square pixels as opposed to 0.1 or 1.2; is this the case, or do I just need to make sure that the document in which the text was created matches the settings I’m using in vegas?

  Mike Kujbida replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Kujbida

  November 15, 2008 at 1:06 am

  What’s your source material?
  Do your project properties match your source material?
  What format are you rendering to?
  What kind of font are you using?
  One trick I learned a long time ago (thanks Spot!!) is to double the size of the text in the frame size boxes in the text event.
  That is, if your project is 720 x 480 (SD NTSC), double it to 1440 x 960.

  There’s a great article here on the Cow called Great Titles with the DV Codec that I suggest reading as the aouthor points out a lot of common pitfalls.

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