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Lower Thirds problems?
Hi Guys,
I haven’t done this in awhile because I rarely ever edit, but I have Avid Xpress Pro and am trying to create lower thirds with Photoshop. I acquired my original video footage from tape shot on the DVX100B in 24PA mode so I guess it’s transcoded already to 29.97. Anyhow, when I make my lower thirds in Photoshop, and import it into avid, the alpha channel works right but the graphic is blurry and yucky looking. I’ve tried saving it as a PICT file, a PhotoShop PSD file and even going into After Effects and importing a qt ref file of the video I want the lower third in from avid, making the lower third which looks great, reimporting the rendered QT movie back into avid and it looks blurry and crappy again.
Anyone have any ideas? I know it’s something stupid I’m leaving out.
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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What resolution are you at? What’s the quality set to in your timeline? (it should be a little green button, bottom left corner – if it’s yellow or half green / yellow, click on it until it changes to green)…
Jon
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I’m at full rez. I double checked though and on a TV monitor the thirds look fine, just for some reason they’re showing up yucky in Avid. The video in avid (because it’s on full res) has been looking great and I suspected that at first. So, it’s a weird display issue it seems where video looks fine and graphics don’t.
I even tried making a title with some ovals and what not directly in the Title Tool and they looked like crap too in the preview monitor.
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Yeah, the display on your computer monitors is only half rez when you’re stopped–it shows 1 field only. When you hit play you should see the image improve because it’s playing both fields, but even then it won’t look as good as it should on a TV because your computer monitor is progressive, and it’s trying to play interlaced material.
Plus, graphics have a tendency to look crunchy on Avid’s display, but great when output to an actual monitor. Go figure.
Either way, glad it’s working, and never trust what’s on your computer display. Always check all your work on a broadcast monitor.
Michael.
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