Secret to sharp imported graphics?

[Bruce Mitchell]

Yup, agree with all of that. Unfortunately, the end results for this project will be 720p WMVs and other computer formats as opposed to video or TV so making it look its best in a square-pixel, non-interlaced format is the goal.

[Jon Barrie]

Sounds like you need a bit of R&D to work with 1080i footage and outputting to 720p.
Having a closer look at your graphic in PShop it does look like the edges I think are the jaggie-est… are actually not that great in their original image either. The inner curve.
AI files will always come out schmick. PSDs should work perfectly too as PPro uses the native PShop code.
I would try to work with a 300dpi original and shrink it down.
I tampered with deinterlacing the footage only (took a while – might wanna try exporting and deinterlacing a completed single file rather than cuts, that’s not the sexiest way to do things compressing and compressing again) then imported that into a 720p project and did the graphics there.
R&D, not working with native res and anamorphic is hell, why can’t everyone work in one format!!!!???? ahhhh.
It keeps us busy and off facebook I guess.
– GoodLuck, Jon B 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

I’ve had a play here with a bit of DV footage inside the 1080i project, should respond the same as full 1080i as it is in its native size lining up the interlacing.
Check this clip here

The clip was exported from the 1080i project to an mp4 720p deinterlacing active. Then re-exported from a 720p project.
The first time you see the logo that was exported as part of the 1st export from the 1080i timeline. The second logo was shrunk to fit the 1st size when in the 720p project and exported at the end of the whole process.

Phew, let me know if it looks any better than your own R&D has been going? – Jon

[Bruce Mitchell]

Wow Jon, thanks a bunch for all of the R&D – those are some good tips to try. I’ll let you know if I find any magical process.

Bruce…