Why am I getting such bad aliasing on my fonts in this .VEG file??? (link provided)

[Edward Troxel]

This last time, what format did you render to in Vegas? If you did not try, try UNCOMPRESSED AVI for the menu. Then make sure the menu in DVDA is set to be PROGRESSIVE.

Edward Troxel

[Rickm1]

That’s just it, I did use Uncompressed AVI. It was a huge file, but I didn’t care. The thing is, as soon as I changed the background video in DVDA, the artifacts appeared in the DVDA preview window. The jaggies were everywhere. And that was before I Rendered. Yet, if I played the AVI with Windows media player, the jaggies were gone and the font looked fine. I just can’t seem to figure this out. arggh.

[Tevya Washburn]

Just so you know, using a lossless or relatively lossless format to render these IS the way to go here so you’re not recompressing MPEG, not sure why the guy on the other forum told you to do it that way.

As for the rest, I’m not quite sure what to tell you, but I do have a couple possibilities: 1) it might have to do with interlacing. Double check and make sure you have enable progressive render of DVD menus checked in the General tab of the Prefrences dialoge. Then also go to the General tab of the properties menu with your background media selected, and make sure reduce interlace flicker is set to “on”. –actually on second thought, maybe you want this off because your video is already progressive (anyone else want to weigh in here?).

2) If both those things are in place, it could have something to do with the way DVDA resizes video. I assume you’re rendering at native 720×480 with 4:3 (.9091) Aspect Ratio. If this is the case, try rendering it with square pixels and a resolution of 655×480 so and see if that makes any difference (still use progressive and uncompressed).

If you’ve been doing all this already, and my new suggestion doesn’t change anything, then I’d say, just use the shadow option in DVDA to create the text there (set the X & Y offsets to 0 and keep the blur down tight). Hope something here works for you.

–the Fiddler