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Newbie–Red logo problems
Hello, I know this is probably so simple to all of you out there, but for the life of me I can’t figure it out. I have a logo that I’ve imported from photoshop. It’s 255 red mind you. I get it all in there, vector paint it, and output it–blocky, aliased, bad. The little diaganal line is smooth, the quality of the compression is best. What do I do? Is it a function of that much red? I also have white text that comes out fine? And if so how do I change it?
Thank you
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7 Replies
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Note: many codecs don’t like 255 red.
Which codec are you using?
(you should generally be rendering through the output module)Steve
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Sounds like the old Avid codec problem with Reds.
Is this problem inherent to the 601 colorspace or the codec?
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I am outputting 10- bit uncompressed to FCP HD. I sent the comp to the render queue…is there another way to output it? I put a small white border around it to help. But it is still aliasing badly on diagonals and curves.
Thanks so much for your help. I have to get this on a dvd today.
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[Talia Raine] “Is it a function of that much red?”
Yes,Charlie
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I went back into photoshop and changed it to NTSC colors. The color is much fainter now, but still jagged. Any other suggestions of how to deal with red in text?
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Thanks I will try the scope. It is not being scaled up, I made it purposely big and scaled it down to avoid this. Any suggestions for dealing with red? Will it look bad on a computer monitor and then ok on a tv? I will burn it to disk now and try it.
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I’m not sure if what you are seeing is jaggies. or NTSC Chroma crawl. Red even at broadcast safe color is a high chroma item, you will get chroma crawl against many other color combinations. Anti-aliasing helps a lot, but usually will still have some crawl, if next to certain backgrounds. Trial and error with borders is the best solution I can think of. Try a tiny border of lesser chroma value it might help the aliasing problem if it is aliasing instead of jaggies.
Charlie
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