[Ann Silenza]

Solved – the squish went away after I put the files through Compressor.

[Ann Silenza]

Thank you, Michael! Thank you, Njuguna!

I built this session as DV NTSC per a friend’s advice but never felt right about it. The video is 95% FCP text, 4 % still images, and 1% actual video. I guess it never made sense to use a this format for this sort of project.

I’ve copy/pasted and rendered into an Uncompressed NTSC 8 bit and already the text looks MUCH better. Do you all agree that this is the ideal format? What’s the difference between 8 and 10 bit?

Are there still rules of thumb I should be following to make great looking text in FCP? Like working only with even numbers?

Learning so much – thank you all.

[Ann Silenza]

So I just tried adjusting the leading from 3 to 5, and – like magic – the text reads more even and clear. Could someone explain to me why that is or refer me to an article somewhere that could?

[Ann Silenza]

Humm, the x/y under motion is at 0/0 and my origin is at -310/180, so all even numbers. Any other ideas for me?

[Ann Silenza]

Thanks, Eric – that’s good to know. I found another Cow thread saying otherwise and felt skeptical.

Any idea if 60-90 minutes of video exported for DVD will need a 4 or 8 GB sized DVD? Is any speed/readability lost by going to the larger size?

[Ann Silenza]

Thanks guys! Stephen – that link was very helpful. I am totally subscribing to that blog.

If anyone is reading this post in the future with the similar problem, here’s a trick I’m using now to gage the text size. I made a fake audience with a sheet of notebook paper and propped them in front of my laptop.