Graffiti and EPS

kairosmatt wrote on 6/2/2007, 7:59 PM
Hi everyone,
Been trying to work with EPS maps in Vegas, so I have Boris Graffiti, which is driving me up a wall! Two things in particular:

1. Sometimes my maps end up a little fuzzy, like they're out of focus. Usually when zooming or panning. Inside the Graffiti plugin it looks great, but in the Vegas preview window (even when set to Best) its out of wack. I thought maybe it was low quality maps, but then it has looked good in Vegas before. I can't find any differences between the goodsettings and the fuzzy ones!!

2. Its really confusing to get the plugin project settings to match the timeline settings. I shoot and edit in 16x9, so after a few trial and errors I realized I had to set the project settings video aspect. Obvious right? Well it looks perfect on the Vegas timeline. But then, I did a practice render, and its not letterboxed like the rest of the footage!

I've tried matching the project settings of Graffiti to project properties of Vegas, but it seems like the plugin just ignores that. Is this something you just have to do in the keyframer and export?

Any help would be great!

P.S. If this is a better titler, I'll stick with what are supposed to be the primitive toolset of Vegas!

Comments

kairosmatt wrote on 6/2/2007, 8:02 PM
Also, I tried to export our of the keyframer as Tga, but it didn't include any of the zooms that I set up!
maybe its just late and I've been frustrated too long....
Dreamline wrote on 6/3/2007, 9:33 AM
Where are the EPS files generated? What software?

kairosmatt wrote on 6/3/2007, 8:21 PM
I don't know what software the EPS where generated under. I got them through maton.com. Is there a first step that I'm missing?
Thanks
Dreamline wrote on 6/3/2007, 9:14 PM
I've been practicing with EPS made with Illustrator for Boris. They look good. There are certain things that need to be done during the export process from illustrator to ensure it works properly. Read the boris instructions about EPS files to see if any of your problems could be caused by improper generation of the EPS file.

The instruction mention scaling problems with certain EPS files.