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film generic for dv-ntsc (best quality possible??)
Hi
I need to do a film generic wich will be incorporated in a FCP porject at MiniDV quality.
I will first wright the text in photoshop, (creating an image of the double of pixel width ) then, in aftfx, will ad a small blur on the text, animate it in a comp of 1440 X 960, then add this animated text on my video background, wich will be in a DV size Comp (720 X 480 )
My question is: will i have a better looking text if i do it that way?
i dont want pixelize text… should i work on higher resolution text comming from photoshop to accheive a good result at the DV resolution??
am i loosing time for nothing doing that way
anny suggestions for accheiving something smooth on ntsc-DV codec?
Thanks
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If you’re starting out with pixel-text out of Photoshop (not vector in AE) and you have very slow sub-pixel movement,
then yes, IMO you would have some more definition that way.but it would be best to (vertical) Blur it some more after scaling down anyway.
To get good titles in the DV-codec, try to avoid colours alltogether: Black and white (but not 100% white) will work best because of the way the colour is encoded in DV at half resolution.
All the other usual caveats apply: not too small, no serif-fonts, render in fields if there’s a lot of motion.
check out this tutorial too:
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