[Rick Macadamia]

Thanks for your continued interest. I’m running the output of my Blackmagic Decklink card into a Sony UVW 1800 Beta SP machine, then taking video out from the Beta machine and connecting it to a Sony NTSC monitor (composite).

It isn’t just my monitor though. I’ve mastered the project to Beta SP and taken the tape to a local post house and observed that the text is also pixelated on the monitors at the post production facility.

I ran a test this weekend where I created a right to left traveling text using Final Cut Pro, much the same as I am doing in After Effects. There was no problem with text pixelation. Makes me think my problem is AE related. The hunt for an answer contines.

[Rick Macadamia]

Thanks to all who weighed in with thoughts on my dilemma. I’ve been working my way through the Meyer’s “Creating Motion Graphics…” book and have noticed that in every turorial I’ve done so far the text on my NTSC monitor has looked terribly pixelated.

I seem to remember from my Media 100 days having a text pixelation problem and my foggy memory tells me that the solution to that problem had something to do with needing to install a new version of Adobe Type Manager.

I’m wondering if I might be missing some essential piece of software. Something unrelated to settings in After Effects. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

[Rick Macadamia]

Thanks to all who weighed in with thoughts on my dilemma. I’ve been working my way through the Meyer’s “Creating Motion Graphics…” book and have noticed that in every turorial I’ve done so far the text on my NTSC monitor has looked terribly pixelated.

I seem to remember from my Media 100 days having a text pixelation problem and my foggy memory tells me that the solution to that problem had something to do with needing to install a new version of Adobe Type Manager.

I’m wondering if I might be missing some essential piece of software. Something unrelated to settings in After Effects. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

[Rick Macadamia]

Mark thanks so much for the quick response to my question. Being new to FCP I’m not exactly sure how to go about pulling individual clips into different projects from a single “Media Only” file but just knowing that it can be done raises my spirits. I’ll burn a little midnight oil over the instruction books and see if I can’t figure that part out. Again thanks.