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Great trick to achieve better quality titles
Hello,
So I was editing a 16:9 standard def project and wasn’t too happy with the quality of text captions, all a bit blocky with noticeable aliasing. Until I did this:
Step 1. Select the title clip (in my case it was created in Boris text tool) and nest it.
Step 2. Double click the clip to open the nested sequence. Go to the sequence menu and select settings. Then change the sequence to an HD sequence such as DVCProHD of the appropriate frame rate.
Step 4. Add a flicker filter to the title in the nested sequence.
Step 5. Go back to the original sequence. Select the nested clip and Conform To Sequence from the modify menu. This resizes the text back to the original size. If you don’t have FCP 6 then you can manually resize the clip smaller using the motion tab (right click the clip and Open In Viewer to get there)
Step 6. Render and enjoy.
This is only worth doing if you are working in a SD anamorphic timeline. It’s not necessary in an HD timeline. Also make sure that motion filtering in the video processing tab of the sequence settings is set to best quality.
Chris Hall
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5 Replies
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The built in final cut title tool was always blocky for me, but never Boris, it always produces smooth results for me.
Is it blocky on a broadcast monitor?
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No monitor? How does it look with the Canvas precisely at 100%?
Kevin Monahan
fcpworld.com”
Author – Motion Grahpics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Hi,
It looks blocky on a broadcast monitor. I’m using a slight border applied using boris which makes it worse.
I was using boris for years and thinking the results were OK but this improves it no end. Try it!
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A white title with no outline looks flawless on my setup.
CRT or Plasma.What kind of sequence are you talking about DV or uncompressed?
I suspect you have some other issue at play if you are not getting perfect titles from Boris.
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Last year I was doing the post of a movie shot in DVCPro-HD.
When doing the PAL-Master in FinalCut, I thought, the subtitles should be copied over to the PAL-Timeline by hand to render better, but astoundingly the downresing was just looking better than the natively PAL-rendered titles.
So I can second that. Boris titles do look much better when created in an HD-sequence and then nested down into the PAL-sequence. (Anamorph, it was, too.)Regards,
MatzeHali
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