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Crop 16:9 video and scroll text for dvd
Hi!
I have two questions which I hope somebody can help me with.
1) When I make 16:9 video and make a dvd that is supposed to look good also on a 4:3 tv, the upper and lower edges of the film are always flickering, so I always crop the film like 1% or so, top and bottom. I’ve done this in Premiere quite a bit of times, but now I wonder what the easiest way is to do this in FCP-Compressor-DVDSP?
2) I want to make a simple upwards scrolling end credits text, white on black on my dvd. I do it with a simple text generator in FCP. But it flickers and looks stripy encoded to mpeg2 in Compressor and imported to DVDSP. I’ve tried to make it in Motion and After Effects, also with “Send to Motion” and imported back to FCP as a Motion project, but I can’t make it clean and neat encoded to mpeg2. What is the simplest, best-looking way? Do you have to consider speed to not show “scanning-lines artefacts”?
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[Urban Skargren] “When I make 16:9 video”
Are you letterboxing the video or authoring it as a 16:9 video on the disc and letting the DVD player letterbox it?
As far as making scrolling credits, I’ve had the best luck in making a PSD with all of the credits and then animating the scroll in After Effects. If you scroll to fast, it will be jump though. That’s part of the game when you’re dealing with scrolling text.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
Hi Russ!
Thanks for your answer. Not quite sure how you mean. Source video is 16:9 anamorphic and I use “Letterbox 16:9” in the menus and tracks in DVDSP to be sure the dvd player plays it right. In this project I also have a 4:3 track, which I put as “4:3”.
When your’e animating the PSD, do you use any motion blur or deinteralcing filters? Do you use this method just because of avoiding flickering and other not-wanted effects?
Concering cropping source video I found I can do this also in the Motion tab of FCP. But it seems complicated to have to do this.
/Urban
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[Urban Skargren] “Source video is 16:9 anamorphic and I use “Letterbox 16:9″ in the menus and tracks in DVDSP”
That’s how I do it too. Not sure what would be causing the problem you’re having.
[Urban Skargren] “Do you use this method just because of avoiding flickering and other not-wanted effects? “
I use a PSD and AE because I trust AE’s ability to render graphics much much more than FCP. If I have motion blur turned on in AE just depends on if it looks better with the text. I’ve still had work on making it smooth, but the results have been much better than anything in FCP.
If you have more questions about using AE, I’d suggest searching the AE forum on the topic. There’s bound to be countless threads on it.
Good luck!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I’ll give it a try without cropping and see.
Do you work in Motion also?
A scroll exported from there seems to look good in DVDSP but it tends to be cut-off at the end although I set the out point well after it.Thanks for your replies.
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Motion should work just fine too. I just know and trust AE, so that’s what I use.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT
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