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Screen capture text rendering
Hi everyone,
I’ve been preparing a tutorial for the Cinema4D forum and I’m really struggling to render it out correctly.
I captured in CamStudio with the lagarith codec. Edited in Premiere Pro CS3 and everything looks really sharp. There is no scaling and as you would expect from a tutorial the image has little movement from frame to frame. The sequence is 1280×720
Ive followed the advice given here but no matter how I render it the text is all messed up, even when the rest of the screen is really clear.
Does anyone have any advice?
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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3 Replies
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Your link fails so I don’t know what sort of advice you got.
You need to grab the same size area you plan on using at playback…period. If you plan on using 1024x 768 or 640×480, or whatever…your best plan is always to scale your interface so it stays exactlt the same size all the way through.
Interface text is usually one pixel wide and there is no margin of error.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Hi Tim,
Strange about the link, this is the relevant part:
VIDEO FILE FORMAT:
Recommended:
30fps
Quicktime Movie
MPEG-4
AAC MPEG4 Stereo 44.1Khz
MPEG4 AAC-LC Audio Recommended
Playable by QTThe video is 1280×800 and I’ve put it in a 1280×720 sequence without scaling. I just have it cropping off the bottom of the screen.
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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Think I’ve just solved my problem. I’ve been setting the video to output as progressive. In desperation I’ve just tried lower field first and the text has come out clear as day! I’m guessing the non-field screen-capture video was being screwed up somehow going through the progressive interpolation. Will try rendering the whole video and see if that works.
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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