Blurry Text solution?

Edward wrote on 10/26/2005, 7:12 PM

I've never been a big fan of the Text Generator in Vegas. It always comes out blurry, even if I use big san serif fonts.

That is until I discovered a way to get crisp edges on Text generated from Vegas... the sharpen filter. Set it to Medium and it should come out pretty good.

Is this a good thing to do? It looks good to me, but maybe someone else has a better solution.

Comments

David Jimerson wrote on 10/26/2005, 7:48 PM

That's interesting; most people tend to think it's too sharp.

farss wrote on 10/26/2005, 8:00 PM

Maybe or maybe not....
I did a PAL to NTSC conversion yesterday, 16x9 kids program. The graphics, well heck the whole thing, has the colors pushed as far outside legal as they'll go without blowing up a vectorscope!
Anyway playing this stuff back through a typical DVD player and feeding it composite into a typical TV it looks like all the graphics have been seived through a flyscreen, absolutely horrible. Yet feed it S-Video into our precision monitor and it looks just GREAT, same goes on the home TV that takes component from the DVD player.
So probably what the FX has done in your case is knock the edges around just enough to provide some antialiasing so that the signal when going down a composite feed doesn't ring.
Certainly the text out of Vegas looks perfect on good gear, about as sharp as it gets. Trick is to keep it looking that good for those without the good gear.
Adding a thin outline half way between the text and the background can help but if what you're doing does the trick and it holds up regardless of how it's viewed then I say go for it, after all ,all that matters is how it looks on the screen.
From what I've seen Caymans text is about as good as it gets but you have to pay for that one.
Bob.