boris scrolling credits

[Chris Babbitt]

Did you render?
Try speeding up the crawl just a bit, or using a bolder font.

[Alex Elkins]

Are you working in a progressive timeline? That has caused problems for me in the past.

[Randy Lee]

Also, how are you monitoring? If you don’t have a broadcast monitor set up to check it on, you can’t know what the final output is going to look like. At the minimum, set the viewer to 100%, if it’s set to anything else it is likely to give you poor looking results. Also, rendering set to high quality, and this piece is fully rendered, correct? If you’ve got all of that and it still isn’t doing a very good job, feel free to give us full system and timeline specs so we know what you’ve got to work with and we’ll see what we can do for you.

[Manuela Corbari]

Thanks everybody,
will get a proper broadcast monitor in the next couple of days and check the scrolling credits on that, and then I’ll let u know
M*

[Manuela Corbari]

Hi
I finally managed to check my Boris scrolling credits on a broadcast monitor, and still they look a bit jittery and out of focus.
I’m working on FCP 6.0
the sequence settings are
HD (1440×1080)
Field dominance Upper (Odd)
Editing timebase 25
Quicktime settings: compressor HDV 1080i50, quality 100%
Video processing is set to render in 8-bit YUV, maximum white as WHITE, motion filter quality NORMAL
The sequence is fully rendered, with same codec as sequence codec.
it seems to be a bit better with the DE-INTERLACE (upper) filter and the 1:2;1 DEFLICKER in the Boris window

Does anybody has any suggestion? Should I change some settings?

Thanks a lot
Manuela

[Alex Elkins]

First thing – have you got your RT settings set at Full? If not, you might be simply viewing a half-res version of it, which would explain the out-of-focus look, which you may not have noticed just on your rushes.

Personally I would remove the de-interlace filter as scrolling text generally looks smoother when it is interlaced (unless this is for the web). Keep ‘Deflicker’ selected though.
Try changing your sequence codec to Apple ProRes 422, as each time you render to HDV it reduces quality slightly.

[Tom Wolsky]

Assuming you have deflicker switched on in the Title Crawl controls, the it’s probably down to the content of the title, font, color, edging, shadow, speed, which will all impact the quality. If you’re working in an interlaced format you basically should not be using a rolling title.

All the best,

Tom

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[Carolyn Lecorre]

Here’s my suggestion and the logic behind it after reading comments on several forums:

Everyone says FCP is really bad for dealing with text, especially scrolling text. You should use After Effects. I will agree, but I think I found a good way around having to buy After Effects just to do scrolling credits (because not everyone wants to buy or even bother learning After Effects).

Having worked on a few projects along side graphic artists, I often incorporated their work from After Affects into my interlaced Timeline. Often, their work was outputed with the “animation” compression, giving a nice clean, non-interlaced product. I thought that perhaps if I created a timeline in FCP with the animation compression and used Boris 3d Crawl, I could get the same kind of output. Turns out I did. That timeline, I just exported as a quicktime movie and then re-imported it to my project and placed it in my NTSC timeline.

Hopefully this will work for you

[Richard Chenoweth]

I’ve been reading all these threads on scrolling credits.

I made some scrolling text (five min.) in FCP6 and when it was in DVDPro Simulator it looked beautiful. When I burned the DVD it looked like hell. All fragged and wobbly and skittery. I had set it up with
“none” and then used Compressor.

Where is the Boris Plugin? It’s not in my “Extras” folder.

I also tried to make this scroll in AE CS3 and AE couldn;t even render it. Kept running out of memory!
I gave it 20 GB of scratch disk on my MacPro…

Any more hints for getting good scrolling text?

[Katrina maria Escay]

Thanks so much Carolyn! This works!

Did some rushed motion graphics and this solved the interlace problem. Made sure to click on the “none” for the field dominance option on the timeline as well, and the de-interlace source video in the size option when exporting. Thanks for the help! Cheers!