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Text looks funny
Not funny ha ha, but funny weird. What’s up with that? It looks okay in the viewer when I’m creating titlecards with the text generator, but once it’s rendered it looks pixelated and nasty. Any suggestions?
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4 Replies
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Tell us about your monitoring set up, and your computer specs and which versions of FCP, QT, & the OS you are using.
debe
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Check your sequence settings and change the Field dominance to none. That will probably solve your issue.
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i set the field dominance to none, but unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem. any other ideas? i’m using a powerbook G4, with OS 10.3.9, Final Cut HD 4.5, Quicktime 7.1.1.
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We still need to know if you are using an external video monitor or if you are trying to judge this quality on the computer screen.
If you are trying to judge it on the computer screen, that’s the problem, and you probably do not have an issue with your text. The canvas, by design, only shows about 1/4 resolution. True quality can only be assessed on an external video monitor, or by exporting a QT movie and looking at it in High Quality playback. External monitor is less time consuming.
In a pinch, even a TV will work. Check out the manual for proper external audio and video monitors.
If you are monitoring externally, it might be that you are mixing QT 7 with Panther. Panther and QT 7 don’t play well together. Your options there may be to upgrade your OS and FCP, or to revert back to QT 6.5.
debe
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