OK.. what is the "trick" to using Graffiti? - SOLUTION

Liam_Vegas wrote on 8/8/2004, 11:03 PM

[BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! - I actually got a call from a support guy at Boris... and we sepnt about 30 minutes going through a whole load of tests. It turns out that he could duplicate the timing issue but not the white "border"... and he had a work-around to the duration issue as well. Problem was that his work-arounds would not work... UNTIL he got me to delete the Graffiti INI files in the \Windows directory. As soon as I did that everything works... no stupid white borders where there should be none and no issues with duration] More details in my post below

I have the full version of Graffiti (not the free bundled version)

My problem is related to an unwanted white border that appears around the text effect that I am creating... that obviously I don't want to be there!

[EDIT: This white "border" effect is ONLY visible if you have a bit of light colored background beneath the graffiti event. If you simply have a black background you will not see what I am experiencing]

What I am trying to do is just overlay some Graffiti text on top of some video I have in Vegas. I do this by inserting an empty event and applying the Graffiti plug-in as an effect onto this event. The default "project" in Graffiti creates a black background which I simply delete in the hope that my text will then be simply overlayed over the top of my underlying video track. This sort of works as my text does display overlayed over the video... BUT.

Problem is the text has an unwanted small "white" colored border around the blue colored text. I cannot find any setting that is creating this white border (no edge style has been selected).

I have a feeliing that I am doing something wrong here... but I cannot figure out what.

And by the way... apart from this little "issue" I am actually finding Graffiti to be pretty easy to use... and it has some very powerful features. Hopefully I can get this problem licked and then I can start using it!

Thanks

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bStro wrote on 8/9/2004, 11:17 AM

Could this be anti-aliasing that's not turning out very well...?

Rob

Liam_Vegas wrote on 8/9/2004, 11:36 AM

Tell me how I can check for that... and I'll see if I can find it out.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 8/11/2004, 12:02 AM

Solution to the issues

Issue 1: White border around text
Boris suggested I change the alpha mode to pre-multiplied black. You find this setting within the Local Project tab of Edit/Preferences in Graffiti. The issue currently is this gets reset to straight EVERY time you open graffiti as a plugin FX to Vegas so every time you edit you have to remember to change this from the default of "Straight". This is a bug and they will look to creating a patch to fix this.

Issue 2: Duration of effect halfed
This is where I was finding my graffiti effects would alter in duration when you render or if you set preview mode to Best/Full (it would exactly half the length). His suggested work-around is simply to go into the Graffiti FX and simply hit the apply button. That resets something and makes it work right.

I'm a happy camper now anyway! I can live with the issues.

I must admit to being VERY impressed with the responsiveness of the Boris support team.