Dammed text!!!

[Ed Dooley]

Give more info! What kind of text, what text generator, what size text, how are you viewing it?
Ed

[Shane Ross]

Editing a DV project? Your text will look bad for as soon as you drop it into the timeline, you are adding the 5:1 compression of DV.

For your text to look good, you need to work in a DV50 or uncompressed 8-bit timeline. But only after you have finalized your cut and are ready to output. However, if you are outputting back to DV, then this won’t work as you need to go back to a DV sequence to output. But this works great if you are outputting to DVD or digibeta or DV50.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Phillip Van west]

Are you using Title3D (the Boris titler, which came with FCP)? It looks (and IS) a lot better than the generic text generator that also comes with FCP.

Also, be sure you’re checking your text on an external monitor (as you should be for everything you edit). Don’t judge quality with the Viewer or the Canvas.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.8 / FCP 5.1.2 / QT 7.1.3

[Ben Holmes]

As many similar previous enquiries will confirm – All text and gfx/stills look terrible in the viewer. You have to look at them on your monitor – via firewire or video output card. Even with DV timelines, you will get crisp clean text when you output – just avoid bad fonts or bad sizes, not all are suitable for video. Start with Arial bold if you want to compare it to something – that always looks pretty clean.

Ben

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd

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[Bret Williams]

Not completely true. While DV is a a very slightly compressed format, it doesn’t affect text THAT much. It’s 5:1 compression occurs almost all in the color information, not in resolution. Dub a digibeta of something with beautiful text directly to a DV tape via component or sdi and see if the text looks bad. It does not. Usually the problem is with FCP or user error or both. Example, placing text on an odd vertical number in the motion tab. Make sure all text is on an even pixel. 2, 4, 6 etc. not 1.37 or 2.46, etc.

The text should be better looking in fact in the canvas window at 100% or 50% with any sq pixel correction turned off. It’s displayed as uncompressed RGB there. But on the ntsc you’ll see the DV compression. And oddly enough you’ll see more issues with the compression if you’re looking at it with a svideo or component signal. If you look at it with a composite signal (as most viewers will) the compression artifacts melt away.

[Sergio Deustua]

My project is a DVCPROHD 720p60 project, and I have tried everything: regular text tool, boris, photoshop, livetpe…nothing works.
Text size 30 to 45, placed over photographs.
Thanks.

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Many posters have asked HOW are you checking the quality.

You must be viewing on an external video monitor and not on the computer monitor).

You must render the text at the highest quality setting before judging the quality.

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And please read the following link-

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles/index.html

It examines DV and resolution.

[Sergio Deustua]

Im monitoring in both video and computur monitor. Im rendering in the hiest quality…and nothing.
Ill read the article.

[Sergio Deustua]

Im monitoring in both video and computur monitor. Im rendering in the hiest quality…and nothing.
Ill read the article.