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Jagged Edges Around Red Text
Hey All,
I did my best to see if this topic was covered somewhere in the forums, but I couldn’t find anything. My problem is this: I export motion graphics out of After Effects CS 4 and bring them into Final Cut Pro 6. If I view the animation in quicktime player or in the viewer, everything looks great, but once I drop them into a 720×480 comp (I’ve also tried 640×480 NTSC square pixels comp), the bright red text becomes all jaggedy around the edges. The white text looks fine, just the red text. The red is pure red, RGB value of 255, 0, 0. This is the color that the client (Verizon) requires. I thought maybe applying a Broadcast Safe filter to it and using the RGB limiting function to drop the brightness of the red a little bit might help, but it doesn’t. Here’s a link to a still of my problem:
https://www.wearerobothands.com/upload/redproblem.jpg
It’s hard to really tell on there, but on a big LCD the problem is very noticeable and the client is upset. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Brian
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3 Replies
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the white is jagged as well.
this is a symptom of the DV codec.
there is no way around it except to change your
sequence to render in prores or another non-lossy codec.Pure red will be a problem because it always
has been for SD video. in HD it would be fine.but it will look better if you just change the sequence
codec.if you are going back to DV tape there is nothing that
can be done except reducing the red saturation to
be broadcast legal as shown on the Red target of a vectorscope. -
There are standards for red that will hit the target on the NTSC vectorscope. There are scope tools in AE, Color Finesse. but you have to register the stupid thing.
Or you can use your RGB sliders to hit the vectorscope box in FCP, write down those numbers, and change your reds to be close to those numbers. You are going to be disappointedbogiesan
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or just use the 3-way color corrector to tone down the saturation
until stays within the red target.
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