How can I improve the quality of titles

Kriben wrote on 3/16/2003, 2:21 PM

Is there a way to improve the quality of the titles? I've noticed that unless it is just plain white on black, the titles tend to be very splotchy in an mpeg 1 or AVI rendering. I'm looking for the clarity that one finds in professional productions.

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Former user wrote on 3/16/2003, 7:55 PM

MPEG titles will always lack somewhat. MPEG is a lossy format, and colors are usually the first things to suffer. What type of AVI did you attempt to make? (codec)

Dave T2

miketree wrote on 3/17/2003, 4:17 AM

What kind of titles did you try?

Kriben wrote on 3/17/2003, 2:39 PM

I tried to make a PAL AVI movie, just to see if there was any difference. The titles look really bad when I have a red background with black lettering. The red is needed in the movie, and the movie has to be an mpeg 1 movie for easy distribution on CD.

Chienworks wrote on 3/17/2003, 3:47 PM

Red is often a problem in digital video. In both DV and MPEG, red is only sampled with 1/4 the resolution of the rest of the image so it will always look blockier. About the only solution is to have less color contrast between the title and the background or to use a different format than DV or MPEG. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like these are possible for you.