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anti-aliasing text issues h264
evenin’ COWS
I’m running into an issue when it comes time to render text. The ultimate goal is a DVD, which is a break from what is mostly web based stuff for me.
My pipeline calls for rendering as quicktime animation, and then compressing to H264 in Adobe Media Encoder.
I have titles using red and white. Red caps for headlines, plain white text for main copy.
What’s happening is that when it comes time to run through AME, all of the red text becomes extremely crunchy, and the white text remains the same.
Now I’ve tried a number of things which include:
- Larger font size – not as bad, but still not as crisp as the white text 40px smaller
- Alternative fonts – using foundry monoline regular, but was the case for any font
- No caps – same issue
- Different color – same issueRendering straight from AE (conventional wisdom tells me this is no better) – as assumed, no difference
- Various Gaussian blur levels – now just blurry and jagged.
- Different render settings – I’ve tried H264 blu-ray, Mpeg2, avi and all seem to yield the same results.
- Different field settings – no joy!
I’m truly stumped at this point and unfortunately most of my contacts are also web-based so the technical knowledge of the ins and outs of dvd-authoring/compression are limited. Is this a resolution issue? All of the footage was shot in HD, but actual footage being scaled is at an acceptable quality, it’s the colored text only that’s the issue.
Any leads?
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1 Reply
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I would bolster my red text, IF I NEEDED it and it was somewhat bold in a deeper\safe color shade of red.
Many times it looks nice and ‘contains’ your edge integrity as well.SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects
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