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ugly titles
I’m trying to put the finishing titles on my project but it comes up distorted when I export to Compressor. My project is DVC Pro-NTSC, and the credits were done with the “type writer” function. When I play the movie in Final Cut it looks fine, but once exported lots of lines distort the image and it looks very unsteady. The Final Cut User Manual recommends using bold font, a non-white or black color, and only several specific fonts. I tried this and it still didn’t work. However, I would like to use a white font plus the “Americana Typewriter” font, both of which are not recommended by the manual. Is there any way of doing this?
David
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3 Replies
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I tend to do most of my text in After Effects. I feel it comes out more cleanly that way. Something for you to consider?
Also, consider creating your text in Photoshop and import the graphic? I know it’s a still image, but that might work for you.
The issue you’re having sounds like it could be an interlacing issue. You say it looks bad when you play it back after going through Compressor? Are you playing it in QuickTime? If so, play your movie back again, and this time press COMMAND-J on the keyboard. In the window that opens click on “Video Track”. Then, choose the “Visual Settings” tab at the bottom. When you do, put a check mark in the “High Quality” box at the bottom right of the window. Potentially this could be the issue you’re experiencing. Your text might “pop” after doing this.
Let me know…
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David,
The “high quality” QuickTime view setting has no impact on how titles will look in FCP. The main problem here is the use of the DV codec. Change the compressor of your sequence to 8bit uncompressed or ProRes and render, The resulting movie will look much better when encoded to DVD.
Have a wonderful day.
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I’m using Compressor so I can export directly to DVD Studio Pro, so does changing the codec in FCP have any effect then? Doesn’t Compressor set its own codec when it compresses it to MPEG2 (I’m burning to DVD)
David
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