Title resolution in Premiere Pro CS3

[Tim Kolb]

The title should be created (in the PPro title tool anyway) at the resolution of the timeline…I’m not sure what you’re seeing, but the titles don’t “drop” resolution…

I’m not really sure what it is you’re seeing without some details…do you have playback quality set to draft?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Bo Skelmose]

Hi
I guess the problem is the same as mine https://www.skelmosetv.dk/filer/Skiltpal-w.jpg
Maybe a little bit dificult to see on the picture, but look at the first A – gets a kind of pixelated when you makes the title alive when zooming in the title. Maybe this just can’t be done.

[Tim Kolb]

Titles in PPro are bitmaps on the timeline…not vector images. Zooming any bitmapped image will cause them to look fuzzy.

Can’t you create the text very large and zoom it toward 100%?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Peter Robins]

Thanks Tim,
I have tried that, but rendering the final product to avi seems to reduce the quality of titles more noticeably than the overall vision, if that makes sense? Perhaps it just seems worse because of the defined edges on the titles? I was trying to avoid having to make vector images of major titles, but it appears it may be the best way!
Thanks for your help.

[Peter Robins]

Thanks Bo, I see what you mean, and yes, it’s very similar to what I’m seeing. As Bob suggests on this thread, I may need to create vector images for major titles. Cheers,

[Allen Strand]

Have you tried the MPEG1 format? Most software should accept MP1s. With the Adobe Media Encoder you can specify nearly any resolution. If you aren’t constrained to DVD distribution I would use higher than 720/480.

I built a simple 720/480 test using the titler without problems. Yes it dithers as expected to make the letters smooth but the overall effect looks nice.

[George Socka]

Not sure that PP can deal with vectors though. Rasterized on import AFAIK. AE can.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com