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titles look bad
I have two questions. I created closing credits in PPro 1.5’s titler using both still titles and rolling titles. Initially they looked fine, but I had to make some revisions, and I made those changes within the original title files and then did a “save as” of the new versions and put them where I wanted them in the timeline.
The revised titles are behaving strangely–showing flickering and moire–along with strange looking artifacts (kind of a “glow”) when viewed on the DVD I authored. Anyone have this experience before or know what to do about it?
Second thing is–I’m also having a significant difference in the playback quality of the finished production when viewing it on a t.v. with a set-top DVD player versus on the PC I created it on.
I exported the production with a CBR 6.8 and PCM audio which I converted in U Lead DVDWS2 to Dolby 224 kb/s (also with a CBR of 7 and Dolby 192). The production looks/sounds great on a tv with a set-top DVD player, but when played on the desktop PC, viewed in Power DVD, there’s lots of artifacts on the movement, particularly on stills that have motion effects. I also viewed it on Windows Media Player, and it looks better than on Power DVD, but still nowhere near as good as the set top DVD player.
Is there a way to mess with export settings, or other things so that it looks good when played on both computer and set top player? Thanks for any help with these issues.
Ruby
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There will always be a difference in quality between what you see on a TV screen played from a DVD player and a software only plater such as PowerDVD.
There are several reasons for this. The hardware-based DVD player is playing out the DVD recording to its native viewing device using the same TV standard, frame rate and interlace. The hardware decoding built into the DVD player also takes into account motion between frames and helps to smooth out any motion artifacts that would normally be visible.
In a software-based player the CPU is having to decode the DVD material and interpret it as best it can. The speed of processing required doesn’t always allow for motion artifacts to be smoothed as well as can be done in hardware.
Also bear in mind that the refresh rate of your monitor is not only not the same as the TV standard that was recorded on the DVD but also the computer display is a progressive scan whereas the DVD is playing back based on an interlaced scan. And on top of that, the displayed picture is rarely the same size as would be shown on the TV.
All-in-all remember that the TV is the only device you can rely on to see what your final production will look like.
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