I'm using a white font with no effects against a black background. Everything looks
sharp on best quality then when I render even to avi uncompressed the font looks a little bit fuzzy, why and what can I do?
I have a Pentium 4 1.8 ghz and 512 MB of RAM
You're probably seeing anti-aliasing, which is intended to get rid of the blockiness and color fringes that often appear on video monitors (especially televisions) around high-contrast lines. The pixels on the borders are fudged to intermediate colors to smooth out the edges. Vegas seems to take this to more of an extreme than some other software. Probably the only way around this is to render the AVI file in Draft mode. You can then import this rendered clip back to the timeline. I won't guarantee it won't be anti-aliased on further renderings though.
Thank you Chienworks. But this does not seem to work. I'm very disapointed in Vegas if this is the case because I plan on doing public access commercials and if this has to be (all my fonts being slightly blurred)then my work will never be perfect, yikes! Is there anyone else that has a solution?????????????
Have you looked at the renders on a TV screen? The added fuzziness should actually look much better on a TV than razor sharp edges will. The computer screen will show the fuzziness much more than a television will.