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Srolling credits issues
I have an End Title crawl created in Photoshop, and brought into AE for a simple scroll for use in a 720p DVCPro HD project in Final Cut Pro. I’ve exported as an animation codec to insert back into FCP. The dimensions are as follows:
I’ve tried 2 versions – one with orange text and one with white text. While each looks fine on my computer monitor from within Photoshop and AfterEffects (I don’t have a large external monitor), there seems to be both a lack of sharpness with both colors, as well as a breaking down of the orange when checking the DVDs made. ANY and all help is greatly appreciated:
Photoshop Dimensions are as follows:
2667 Width
16270 Height
Document size (points)
1280.2 Width
7809.6 Height
Resolution is 150 pixels.After Effects Composition settings are:
Preset: DVCPro HD 720 23.976
960 Width
720 Height
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HDV 1080/DVCPro HD 720 (1.33)Thanks to all,
-Les Kaye -
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There are some tips in the “Best practices for creating text and vector graphics for video” section of After Effects Help that might help, especially with regard to setting your vertical scroll speed correctly and avoiding overly sharp color transitions and overly fine details.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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Thanks Dave & Todd. I’m an editor, not a compositor – meaning I know just enough to cause problems…
First, we decided to use white text again a black bg, with a few colored gfx sprinkled throughout. Next, I changed the original psd to 300 dpi, which noticeably helped the sharpness problem I first posted about. I also added the reduce interlace flicker filter, which we THOUGHT helped. So while the end titles look great in After Effects, and the QT export (Animation codec) also looks great when viewing in Quicktime, the problem has been in making the test DVDs.
When playing back the DVD, there’s a fringing around the edges of text and graphics. I finally tried using Kevin Camp’s position expression. Unfortunately while the timeline seems to play correctly, it does not end correctly – the scroll ends a few seconds before the last frame has passed the viewer. The scroll ends with thje last frame of image in the top third of the frame.
Finally, I’ve done different exports at both 24fps AND 29.97, and it doesn’t make a difference when viewing the DVD.
Is there ANYTHING else I can do?
Thanks again,
-Les Kaye
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