[Mbelli]

I have a dual head video card running two 19″ LCD panels card and a broadcast Sony monitor coming out of OHCI/SONY DSR20 DVCAM DECK. I color correct and evaluate solely based on my Sony monitor, I don’t bother with my LCD Premiere monitors for evaluation.

I don’t have PP 1.5 anymore, I did a clean install to PP 2. I noticed the rolling title problem when I was making a new title roll in PP 2. I had to duplicate a roll from a previous project edited with PP 1.5. As I didn’t have the original project file, only the completed video, I clipped out the PP 1.5 roll and recreated it in PP 2 (using the 1.5 roll as a guide). That’s when I noticed the quality hit in the titler. More ringing/flickering. Same BG, same font, same size, same speed!!!!

Again, this is subjective. Without the comparison I might have not even noticed myself. I’m not saying I get lots of ringing and flickering, but more than the 1.5 titler. At this point, if you ask me, in regards to rolls, I’m not very happy with PP 2. Something has changed!

[Mbelli]

>Limit the range of colors within 16,16,16 and 235,235,235

>Change the speed of the title ever so slightly. Some
settings will look better than others.

I’ve done that, there’s no difference (I normally use DV black at 16, 16, 16 and much lower white values on the fonts when preparing any title over black). I can’t get a clean roll from PP2’s titler at a normal to slow speed. I’ve played with it all afternoon and I just can’t get a good roll!!

I’m actually surprised that I’m the only one with this problem. Can anyone else here test a simple rolling credit with white text over black bg & view it with a critical eye. I think you’ll see what I’m talking about. At this point the roll function in the PP 2’s titler is not usable.

[Mbelli]

Thanks a lot guys, this saves me a lot of time having to dig through the mamual or help file to find it (I’m now going to write it down and stick it on my monitor!!!).

[Mbelli]

Solved my own problem. There’s a Deinterlace checkbox on top of the encoder which is not on by default. If left unchecked, the encodes look soft. If checked, sharpness is where it should be.

I guess this checkbox is deceptive, it should maybe say “deinterlaces and quality resizing/sampling” or something. No way that box is only deinterlacing!!!!

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