Titles

[Debe]

You can only judge the final quality on your external video monitor.

The Canvas, by design, only shows you about 1/4 resolution.

Consult the manual for proper external audio & video monitoring. Where it is in the manual depends on which version you are using.

It’s possible your titles look just fine. You have no way of knowing until you see them on an external monitor.

If they still look bad once you connect up to an external monitor, post back with system specs, FCP, QT & OS versions, & Sequence Settings and hopefully we can help you narrow it down!

debe

[Robin]

Text in video is a bit of a trick.

There are two things to bear in mind.

1. you are working across two different pixel sizes – square pixels on the computer, oblong pixels on tv.
If you create titles in a graphics package you need to create them in one size and then squeeze them. The measurements depend on your tv system (ntsc, pal etc.) for uk SD Pal you create in 788 and then squeeze it to 768 (x576).

2. Because of the two different pixel shapes what you see on a computer and what you see on a TV are two different things. Ensure you view your rendered version on a tv and you may find that the text is actually fine. Again this is because of the different pixel aspect ratios.

If you search the forum this question has come up a number of times.

Good luck

[Ed Dooley]

If you’re using Photoshop CS or CS2 it does it for you. When you create a new image you get to choose a preset
for DV, DV wide, or D1, in either PAL or NTSC. It displays it correctly on your computer for design and does the stretching
for you, no guessing or remembering.
Ed

[Robin] “If you create titles in a graphics package you need to create them in one size and then squeeze them. The measurements depend on your tv system (ntsc, pal etc.) for uk SD Pal you create in 788 and then squeeze it to 768 (x576).”

[Robin]

Oooh nice tip Ed!!! That’s going to save me loads of time!