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Credit roll blurred – what am I doing wrong?
I created a long credit roll in AE and plan to render it for use in a Vegas project. I’ve tried everything I can think of to make the text scroll smoothly and can’t seem to make it work correctly. Normally I would just use Vegas for the credits, but I need multiple fonts and font sizes and Vegas isn’t very text editing friendly, so I decided to build the credits in AE.
My final Vegas project will be in wmv format, so I chose composition settings of NTSC, 640×480 with square pixels and 29.97 fps. I’m rendering to avi as uncompressed output. I’ve added the ‘Reduce Interlace Flicker’ effect and the result is better, but barely readable.
I’ve done some work in AE previously using the text presets and the results are always crisp.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks,
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You probably checked this already but… do you have motion blur turned on?
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Thanks Shayder – I tried turning motion blur on but it seemed to make the problem worse.
I’m trying a render now with Reduce Interlace Flicker turned up to 1.2 (previously had it set to 0.8)
if I had any hair I’d be pulling it out!
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Are you rendering to fields? If you are not, then do so. Will help smooth the motion.
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Hi Jeff, I’ve tried both with fields off and lower, neither seemed to make a real difference, but I’ve tried so many combinations now I’m losing track even with all my notes…
I’ve give it another go with lower fields on, reduce interlace flicker at 1.2, and motion blur off.
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My understanding is that you should only have to
use the reduce flicker if you are outputing to
interlaced video. The reduce flicker effect actually
blurs the text so that crossing the different fields
during the roll doesn’t make the text flicker.If your output is progressive video you probably
do not need the reduce_flicker option.If you are outputting to interlaced video, the biggest
factor is the speed of the text. Moving at the wrong
speed can cause only one field of data to be drawn,
thus reducing the resolution of the text by half.
If you have it the Meyer book has a good section on
this.Mark
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Thanks Mark – I believe that was where I started – since I’m looking for a progressive output I set field render off, and wasn’t using the interlace flicker option. But I was rendering to avi – can I do that in progressive, or is avi interlaced by default?
Would you give me some details on the Meyers book – sounds like I need to do some reading…
thanks,
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oops – Mark, Is the Meyers book “Creating Motion Graphics with after effects”? I have volume 1 and have been going through it… I’ll try setting the pixel rate to an even multiple as he suggests.
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ok, setting the pixel rate at an even multiple helped a lot! I turned everything else off – field render, motion blur, & reduce interlace flicker…
I’m getting close – results are almost useable!
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well I gave up – Can’t seem to make this work after wasting 3 days with a simple credit roll.
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