Movie Text Blurs from Converted Flash File...

newbie2013 wrote on 8/9/2013, 10:03 PM
Hey guys! New to all of this but am having great success with both Sony Vegas and DVD Architect.

The only problem I'm running into with my entire DVD project is the portion of my movie where I use flash animation and text.

I've converted my swf files to .mp4 and those files play beautifully. The problem starts when I go into Vegas and change my settings to NTSC DVD widescreen. Once I render the video as Mpeg 2 Architect with NTSC settings and preview in architect there is some anti aliasing that is lost with lines and text, it just blurs out.

Then once I actually burn to DVD and play on tv/lap top the text is completely shotty, blurry, anti alias off, jagged, etc. This is only happening for the converted swf portions of the movie.

Anyone have any solutions on how to fix this problem? Appreciate any help!!!

Comments

videoITguy wrote on 8/9/2013, 10:09 PM
Two (2) very major things work against you in bringing text into a burned DVD. 1) Your source of file format with text will never cut it as the source is way too weak on text display. ( That said, the case for bringing your workflow to completion on a DVD is not going to help.) 2) Which brings us to the second real case issue with bringing text into standard DVD production. YOU SHOULD produce your text in VegasPro with the built in ProType Titler - keeping in mind you are going to have to tweak and create non-serif large type for best display.
Steve Mann wrote on 8/10/2013, 10:16 AM
Also, Flash is a very bad choice for an input format since it is already heavily compressed. When you make the mpeg file, you are recompressing it again.
musicvid10 wrote on 8/10/2013, 10:33 AM
"I've converted my swf files to .mp4 and those files play beautifully."

You haven't posted a single detail about "those files"; resolution, frame rate, bit rate, codec, interlace. Use MediaInfo from Sourceforge and post the complete file properties, and someone "may" be able to help you with the conversion to DVD format. Maybe not.
newbie2013 wrote on 8/10/2013, 2:08 PM
Got it, thanks.

Original SWF files are created at 24 fps.

Those files are then converted in Swivel program. Settings are as follows:

Video size: 1920 X 1080
video codec: h.264 high
bitrate: 4 mbps

These files come out great and play perfectly clear.

File is then imported into Sony Vegas mixed in with .mov clips in timeline. Distortion begins when properties are set to DVD NTSC Widescreen.

Project Properties are set to:

DVD NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Video: 29.970 fps, 720x480 Lower Field First
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212
Full resolution rendering: Best
De-interlace Method: Blend Fields


Movie is then rendered to mpeg-2:

DVD NTSC Widescreen 16:9
Video: 29.970 fps, 720x480 Upper field first, YUV, 6 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212


Then is imported into Architect:

Video format mpeg -2
Bitrate 9.8
Aspect ratio 16:9
resolution 720 x 480 (NTSC)
Frame rate 29.97


videoITguy wrote on 8/10/2013, 2:43 PM
Any questions? ReRead this entire thread again?.
newbie2013 wrote on 8/10/2013, 3:16 PM
Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately there's a lot of text that is actually apart of the flash animation and I'm too far along to strip all of the text out of the animation and redo it in vegas.

I'll just have to work it out.

musicvid10 wrote on 8/10/2013, 6:21 PM
OK, I'm sure you'll be able to make some improvements on your own.
Just a heads up: you lose 85% of your video information going from 1080p to DVD, so don't set your expectations too high.
Best of luck.