Pixelated text

[Mike Velte]

I might be blind, but your graphics look fine. Displaying graphics on a computer monitor at anything other than native resolution can cause ugly artifacts. Change the zoom level of the Program monitor to 100% to inspect.

[Eddie Lotter]

FAQ:Why are my titles blurry/wrong?

Cheers
Eddie

[Clare Adams]

Thanks both..

I appreciate your blindness- unfortunately my bosses/clients are hyper alert to anthing other than what they are used to seeing on TV!

With my Dv limitations is there anything else I can do without changing my entire set-up?

Thanks for link Eddie, have checked it out and seen the problems dont quite relate to what I’m saying.. though it leads me to this page

https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@1019.aBGHeoxmIT8.454160@.3bb3ee57

which if you could intepret into something for more speicfic and easier for me to read I would mucho appreciate it as its so long and complicated 🙂

[Eddie Lotter]

It appears you are complaining about scaling artifacts, but with the sparse details you provided it’s diifcult to know for sure.

Please provide these details to help us help you.

Cheers
Eddie

[Vince Becquiot]

A couple of things to try. A different font, different size, make sure you don’t use the hoizontal stretch tool, disable frame blending on the clip.

Finally, DV is what it is. You can try an uncompressed export to compare and explain the difference to your boss/client.

Here’s what you should expect in an uncompressed format.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jon Barrie]

I must say that all productions are limited by the quality of the original and then the quality of the output. In Broadcast you may be working with an MPEG-2 based clip but it’s running at about 12-16Mbps. DV runs about 25Mbps. DVD is horrible at 8Mbps MAX. (9Mbps really but most players can’t keep that level up).
The biggest thing I can see is that your stills are made up of RED text. Red is the worst bleeding edge colour in the compression spectrum. Avoid it like the plague if possible. DVD doesn’t like red, just how it is – no fix. If your clients want the best possible quality then you need to ‘educate’ them to use a miniDV playback setup instead of DVD. Better bitrate = less compression = better edges.
Also, your testframes with footage look like they are de-interlaced, that’s going to soften the hell out of everything, especially edges of text. Effectively you remove half the details by de-interlacing. That will have a large quality affect on DVD too.
1. DVD is not the best blown up.
2. RED is bad.
3. DONT DEINTERLACE
4. miniDV playback might be your saving grace.
5. Educate the client/s with DV playback Vs DVD (huge difference)
Cheers,

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Clare Adams]

Thanks will spend next couple fo days trying these things out, thanks everyone.Will post when reach conclusion or with the full details you asked for if I need more tuition.