Proffesional look??

[Sean Cusson]

My 2 cents is to ALWAYS use motion blur on anything that moves. Especially on moving text. I know it seems fairly obvious but a lot of people still don’t use it. It cranks render times up a lot but I usually split the moving layer so when it’s actually in motion I have the motion blur check box on, and when it’s at rest, I use the other portion on the split clip and keep motion blur off.

[Steve Roberts]

Bright, saturated colors bleed on TV, so you need to desaturate them. Create an adjustment layer over the whole comp, then apply the broadcast colors effect to that layer, set to “key out unsafe”. Make sure your comp’s background color is something like bright green. Now all “unsafe” colors will be keyed out and appear bright green. To make them safe, either choose a different, less saturated color (if you can, say, to text) or apply the hue/sat effect to the adjustment layer, making sure it’s above the broadcast colors effect in the effect stack. This will desaturate everything — as you desaturate, watch the green go away. By the way, for yellow, try changing it to a slightly more orange color if you can.

As for the flicker, if you have video with thin lines in it, try applying a .5 to 1-pixel vertical blur (fast, gaussian or directional blur) to the video. If the fine lines are graphics scaling up or down, it might be best to apply the blur to an adjustment layer over the fine-line graphics.

Hope that helps,
Steve

[Videonovice]

Thank

[Steve Roberts]

Generally, you only need to limit the whites to 235 … and bring the blacks up to 16 if you’re going to broadcast.

It depends on the kind of flicker you’re talking about. Try searching the COW posts on “flicker” to see other solutions.

Steve