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Is this a stupid question? – Sharp Subs on small files??
Im trying to get sharp Subtitles on a file that is 720 X 405 pixels, to put on the web.
Of course, in FCP the text is beautiful, sharp etc etc.
But then compress that sucker into the 720 X 40 and then playing at fullscreen, looks fine but the text looks crappy.
Are there any tricks around this? logically, it seems impossible to make the movie smaller and have the text stay sharp as it is in the HD version of the movie, but then again im sure i seen stuff online that has super sharp text over a low res movie. Is that because their text is coming from somewhere else i.e. a flash overlay or something?
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11 Replies
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What is your sequence set to? What are your compression settings?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
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They create text in Flash, (vector) and have under neath FLV streaming file.
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I created a sequence exact same as what i want to output.
754 X 424
Compressor: H.264
Original is 720p
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ah man, yeah i thought so, but this kinda isnt an option as it means handing off the work to the already-overworked Flash guys in my company.
I dont suppose there is some way for me to create these myself without flash? Probably not.
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Export as Animation and use Sorenson squeeze to make FLV file. You will get the best results.
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thanks ill give that a whirl for sure.
cheers,
J
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Output a file or reference file from your original sequence in the same 720p format it’s currently in. Don’t scale down in FCP — that’s probably the reason it looks lousy.
Drop the file into Compressor and scale it in there. Use the H.264 codec, variable bitrate encoding (VBR) and add about 10 to 20 percent sharpening. The sharpening will increase your encoding time tremendously, but the results are a lot clearer. If it takes too long then you can forget about the sharpening.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Adobe Media Encoder does a great job too!
another things to possibly consider is:
are your text lines positioned on even/whole numbers (ie 12 instead of 11.7)?
is your font just too thin?
try creating font in Motion or use Boris 3d Text (FCP text tool not the best)doubt any of these are your issue, but its worth noting just in case.
Todd Reid
Senior Editor
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Did you say that your sequence is H.624?
I thought that was a delivery codec and not great to edit in.
Try changing your sequence (prores?) and see if that helps.
You may be hitting a weird compression scheme hiccup.I have have good results with text final converted to flash, so I know its possible without the flash overlays (which would obviously be better quality).
Todd Reid
Senior Editor
Digitized Media, Inc. -
One of the best suggestions for improving text that is eventually going to be transcoded is to reduce the transparency in the original and to add a wee bit of halo around it. This dramatically reduces the amount of pixelation in the final transcode because the adjacent pixels do not have sharp or abrupt rise times.
bogiesan
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