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NTSC Text Troubles
I am having a lot of trouble making my text look nice and crisp in a NTSC DV render out of after effects. Does anyone have tips or tricks to help with this??
help needed!!!!
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6 Replies
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If you are not exporting to DV tape, avoid DV exports, use a lossless codec instead.
Vince
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its a commercial. it has to be. thanks though.. anyone got any tips!! need help!
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[jcharlss] “its a commercial. it has to be.”
Uhh … no it doesn’t, does it? If the broadcaster takes BetaSP or DigiBeta tapes, you could find a post house that can output those, then find out what the post house wants from you on a hard drive (Blackmagic/Avid/Animation QT, or TGA), and render appropriately, then give the post house the hard drive.
They do charge for the service, but you get a much better product.
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If you REALLY have to take it back to DV, you could try adding a tiny amount of blur to the text layers.
This obviously goes against the “crisp” aspect of your question, but it may look better that the DV artifacts your will find on hard edges…like text.
Vince
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ok im fairly new to this.. and i got put in a position to create graphics for this commercial and ive never really done graphics for a commercial before.. what is the best way to output this?
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Start at the end and work backwards.
What does the broadcaster want? Tape? BetaSP? Digibeta?
How will you get that to them? Make it yourself, or get a post house to make the tape?
What does the post house want from you? Avid/Media100 codec? Quicktime? AVI? Animation codec? TGA sequence?You have to know the answers to these questions.
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