[Vincent Rosati]

I always create a project that matches my desired output, even when I need additional renders at smaller sizes. Different size, different project file. That’s just how I do it.

It’s good that you have a project file at full resolution, just drop it into a DV project, resize it, output for DVD.

As long as you’re in an NTSC region, then yes, NTSC DV. The audio sampling rate also depends what you need in your workflow.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

Are the videos letterboxed or pillarboxed?
Either way, uncheck “fit to scale” and do the resize manually with Effect/Distort/Transform.
At export, make sure to change Recompress: Maintain Data Rate to Recompress: Always.

I like to control every setting I can.
Make sure you’re in a Full Screen DV project file. If you’re not, just create one and import your original project into it.
I think “fit to scale” might be a default, but I wouldn’t recommend using it. It just uses basic rendering to proportionately scale whatever you drop into the timeline, so it fits in the projects dimensions.
Effect/Distort/Transform resizes with a higher quality.

This is all assuming you don’t need to deinterlace anything.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

Why are you thinking the image has lost resolution? How did you determine this?
Are you having a problem with an AI file after printing or exporting?
Are you doing anything to the image while it is in AI, resizing, rotating?
What is the resolution of the source file?

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

1 – Illustrator
2 – Photoshop
IMHO

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[Vincent Rosati]

Just a couple thoughts, I’m sure there are other options…

1 – Place the raster into the IA file instead of pasting it in. Then send a zipped package that includes the AI and the rasters.

2 – PDFs are for print and proofing, not design. You should be working with the source file that created the PDF.
Why??? I’m not sure exactly in your situation, but I suspect it has to do with version differences in the files and what settings were used when the document that was saved.
Here is a script to repair broken text…
https://vectips.com/tricks/10-free-and-extremely-useful-illustrator-scripts/

3 – Could be that the particular font has a licensing restriction.
Worst case scenario is to export a TIFF and use Trace to generate a vector, or if the resolution isn’t large enough zoom in in Acrobat and take a series of screenshots, tile them together, then do the trace.

Again, just some options.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

It doesn’t matter, as you suspect. But as a matter of maintaining total control, you should put a black solid underneath the 4:3, or matte as you mentioned. Remember to use a legal black if this might be displayed on a CRT, not pure black.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

It sounds like you’re almost there.
Just make sure you’re adding the new fill layer with the Appearance Palette.
Then setting the blend mode to Multiply on the uppermost layer, from the Transparency palette.

In this example, just select one of the text objects and view its properties in the Appearance palette.

https://f1.creativecow.net/1121/illustrator-cs4-appearance-palette-layers

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

If the texture is a raster, maybe you could try adding a grayscale version of the image to your swatches palette. Then, select your object and in the Appearance palette and add new fill layer and select the texture swatch as the fill, and maybe set the blending to multiply.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

nope

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The sans I see there as ‘UNTOLD…’ looks like Eurostile.??

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