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Red text / graphics look messy when I watch on TV!
Hi everyone,
My problem is this: I am editing a film which contains some instances of red text / graphics on a dark background. When I export and watch the film on DVD on my TV, the text and graphics look really ugly, with strobing diagonal lines and general ‘interference’. Is there any way I can change this?
Many thanks in advance!
Dan H.
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11 Replies
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Reduce Saturation
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Hi, have you tried different background colors, like gray? and if you have, do you get the same bleeding? What program are you building your titles in?
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Thanks for that…
Is the best way to do that to use the Desaturate filter, or the HSV adjust?
To be honest in both cases it hasn’t seemed to fix it…
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I haven’t tried a different colour, but there’s a certain issue with branding (the client wants their colours) so it kind of needs to be blue.
In one instance the graphic has been created in Photoshop and then imported, and in other instances I’m building the graphic using the title tool in FCP. In all cases I’m getting that wierd strobing lines I talked about.
Thankyou!
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The program you should be using is LIVE TYPE. All i know is i work with LIVE TYPE all day long and it works perfectly with FCP and i get no bleeding whatsoever.
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Okay, thanks…. I’ll try it!
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let me know how it goes for you, if you need help how to use it, i can explain certain things to you. Unless you already know how to use it. The outline is the best part of live type in my opinion and the way the colors are just tight on the television. The clarity is perfect. You can put shadows behind and you can change the size of the point of the outline of the letters. You can do everything in live type. When you fix a title in live type, it automatically gets fixed in your timeline in final cut pro.
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Thanks teach,
To be honest the deadline for the project I posted about this has passed and in the end I didn’t have a chance to look into Livetype properly (the deadline was a tight one!) so I’m not 100% satisfied that I did fix the fuzzy red graphics … I’ll definitely be looking into Livetype for future projects. I am intriuged that it links to the FCP timeline… that would certainly make life a lot easier, and anything’s got to beat the FCP title tool which is clunky at best.
I’ll no doubt have some queries along the way, so thanks for your offer of support!
Dan.
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Dan, you can reach me at teachen34@aol
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by the way. FCP titling is a joke
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