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Best settings for this image to appear on DVD?
Hi, I’m creating a music instructional DVD which is going to use these chord diagrams on screen.
I’ve been told to apply the “extremely conservative” broadcast colors filter to it, as well as use the “reduce flicker” and apply a blur to it. Also, this image needs to fit across the screen lengthwise (testing on 4:3) so using the pan/crop to make it smaller makes it harder to see too and increases crawling edges/flicker. If any of the gurus can tell me the best way to make this show up on the DVD where it’s easy to see, I’d be very thankful. Also keep in mind that the DVD will be viewed on TVs as well as computers. Reason I say this is because when I applied the blur, it looked good on the TV, but blurry (imagine that!) on the computer screen. Also, this is the hardest one to make work because it has 8 chord grids in one measure. The other images will have less so they can be bigger.Here’s the image:
https://www.filelodge.com/files/room22/568910/meas1_white.png
Thanks,
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Looks like a bad scan, or a low res png enlarged. My advice would be to start from scratch in photoshop and import the changes from chord to chord – each as a separate layer over the ‘strings’ layer.
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Hmm, well this is the high resolution png output setting in the program.
The quality of the image is great.What do you mean: “import the changes from chord to chord – each as a separate layer over the ‘strings’ layer.”
What do layers have to do with anything here? These are just simple chord grids that I need to display on DVD, see here for the composed frame:
https://forum.videohelp.com/images/guides/p1551588/test-0.jpg
This looks pretty decent on the TV, but with that .001 gaussian blur, it looks blurry on the computer monitor. Is there some trick I’m missing that will make it look good on both screens?
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OK – the other image link you gave out looked pretty rough. That’s why I suggested redoing the image. Is each cord highlighted as it is played in the video?
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No, but that’s a good idea!
I don’t know how I could accomplish that though..Is there a way to highlight each chord as it’s played even though it’s one whole image? -
A number of ways to do that. You could create a long colored rectangle with a window in it in Photoshop and slide that along over the chord image using the pan-crop tool, with transparency set on that track, or a bunch of tracks fading in out out using the same PS rectangle positioned using the pan-crop tool again.
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Hmm, so basically something like a red square that moves over each chord diagram… but wouldn’t the inside of the square cover up the chord when it moves over? I’m not real good with graphics.. I have paint shop pro to use.. If I create a red square, it will have a white inside, and in my mind, will cover what it’s moving over once I put it on the timeline.
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I tried to do it using the media generator and decreased the level setting to 40% and it made a decent highlight, only problem was that I could not get it down to the correct size using pan/crop, it’s too small..
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Yeah, you can us the media generator to create the two rectangles by resizing the pan crop and position with track motion. You could then move them across the screen with a space between the two by keyframing that movement. Make both those tracks semitransparent and you would have something that should look pretty cool.
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why two rectangles? I’m confused?
It should just be one rectangle that moves from chord to chord.. So track motion has to be used then right? It can’t be accomplished with pan/crop alone (this is what I’m finding) but do explain what you mean by two -
It’d be much easier to make this highlight image event based instead of track based that way I can put all my events on one timeline instead of several diff veg files. If I keyframe it based on the whole track, it becomes a royal pain in the butt if I have to move events, etc. I can’t figure out how to do it with the event based pan/crop yet =( Anyone else have an idea?
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