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Importing Graphics into Adobe Premiere Pro
Hi,
I know it has been covered quite a bit – and I have read and followed every post here, Ken Stone, lynda.com, google at large – everywhere I can find for the past two weeks – and no process I follow seems to give me any different results. I’m hoping someone might be able to point out whatever extremely dumb mistake I’m making…
I’ve just switched to Premiere Pro… but I’ve always had the same problem in FCP too…
Here’s what I’m doing – well, here’s one of the many things I’ve done anyway…:
• I have a Premiere CS5 project 720×480. The video is avi files from a very old project.
• I have the sequence open, and within PP go to File/New/Photoshop to create a photoshop file with the same properties as my sequence.
• i place my graphic into photoshop. it looks awesome. I save it.
• in Premier – when i double click on the image- it again looks awesome. i place it in the timeline. I render. it looks horrible.
• I try exporting to Quicktime at full quality/same settings-still looks horrible.
• i’ve also tried taking the smallish text out of the logo and using Premieres Title. Still looks very crummy and the title text looks crummy too.I put a sample (not at same settings/full quality) with a few different versions of the watermark up at:
https://d1r30ni5qr50u3.cloudfront.net/Embodyment%20Fusion%20pilates_7.mp4any help would be incredibly appreciated. I’ve never posted before- so I apologize in advance for any etiquette gaffs… newbie supreme…
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The word Fusion looks good, but the text is to small.
This might help you to understand.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles.php———————————————–
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thanks so much. i had read through those tips before. as far as the title only – i’m using fonts straight from PP – which I assumed (incorrectly?) are optimized for video. but maybe not. i’m not sure how i can make them any bigger and it still be a watermark and starting to get in the way…
what i can’t figure out is – a video like this where everything looks really sharp – even at pretty small sizes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBO4nmWnFxk
that’s just exactly what i’m trying to accomplish. also – these videos are for web viewing only – if that matters.
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Yes they look great, made in a whole different manner.
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thanks ann. I’ve tried saving the logo as PNG too – but i get the same results. Everything I’ve read says that it’s best to use psd with premiere pro. is that not right?
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I always use psd.
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so are you saying that I’m probably creating the file incorrectly? any hints or tips greatly appreciated.
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No that is not what i am saying.
Im saying its due to the dv codec and your text is too small.
To be able to see/project the text properly font size should be no less than 20 pixels, maybe more.———————————————–
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Are you sizing the graphic at all? Also, when you move it, are you making sure that the position you place it in is a whole number? (Not something like 351.3). Those are things that can make graphics look bad as well in a 720×480 sequence.
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i’ve tried both ways – either making it the right size from the start in photoshop – or making it big and sizing it down. i didn’t see much difference. I checked the placement – they are all on whole numbers… but that is a great tip. thank you…
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Here’s an updated version. the logo looks okay. for the type – i changed the font to Gill Sans and upped it to 20 font size but that didn’t improve anything. i double checked that everything is placed on whole numbers…
https://d1r30ni5qr50u3.cloudfront.net/Embodyment Fusion pilates_10.mp4
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