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Photoshop text has jagged edges at native resolution
Hello all. I’m one of the old Final Cut 7 immigrants – so while I know editing, I’m afraid I’m rather clunky on Premiere.
I’ve been looking around on the COW and the web at large for information on this and am coming up dry for recent information on this problem. Either I’m the only one with the issue or I don’t know the correct terminology to search.
When I create a title in Photoshop (1920×1080) and import into Premiere (1920×1080), the edges of the text are aliased, jagged. However, when I create an identical title using identical font inside Premiere, the text is smooth and beautiful.
On top of that, if I create the same title at double resolution (3840×2160) inside Photoshop, and then export to Premiere, it’s smooth and beautiful as well. Why can’t I create smooth text at the native resolution in Photoshop? Is this something I’m doing wrong? Or do all skilled Premiere editors create their Photoshop titles at 3840×2160?
Thanks for all thoughts!
Nick
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8 Replies
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An excellent question and worthy of asking.
Viewing at full resolution. I can see the aliasing both in the editing window in Premiere as well as on the preview monitor being fed native resolution from the Matrox Mini.
Nick
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what about when it’s rendered?
what file format are you bringing it in as?
Is it a non flattened .psd per chance?
if so, try saving it out as a non interlace .png,
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Try a new project and turn off the Matrox and see if that does anything. Beyond that, did you ensure that your PSD file is at least 72dpi? Frame size of PSD is same as the frame size of the sequence?
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Good questions all.
Frame size is the same. Resolution is 72dpi. The problem is the same after the video is rendered. The problem is not affected by the presence/absence of the Matrox Mini.
Nick
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is it flattened/rasterized though?
do you still have it in layers? That’s the only thing I can think
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Correct – importing it still in layers.
Nick
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I don’t see that you answered whether you were viewing at full res in the program window and if you tried it as a PNG. The first is important, the second most likely not…
One other thing to try is to trash your prefs and/or clean your cache. Again, not necessarily going to help it, but it won’t hurt either.
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