red text and ghosting colors

JoshP wrote on 6/5/2003, 10:28 PM

i just finished my first dvd. it contains my short 23 minute film with animated chapter menus and all. i used red titling for my menus and the red comes out pixely. there are also some wierd "ghosting" reds and blues in wierd places, it's almost as if my colors were not balanced in DVDA or something. I optimized my project before burning to 9 or whatever the highest bitrate is. i played it on two dvd players on two different tv's and even on my computer, it had the same problem. now should i just not use red titles, or was my bitrate to high? please help. has anyone else had this problem?

JoshP

Comments

jetdv wrote on 6/5/2003, 11:17 PM

The problem is the red. Try a different color or "less red"

farss wrote on 6/6/2003, 5:28 AM

Look at your generated video on the scopes, anything that goes outside the 100 ring is going to be a problem, if you've got lines going out to opposite quadrants your also likely to have a problem.

One trick is to add a very slight blur to the text or whatever. It dosn't look so good on your PCs monitor but looks better on an analogue monitor/ TV

rwizard wrote on 6/9/2003, 1:20 AM

The DVDA title function where you input the text on the menu screens seems to create ghosting text whenever the particular menu text is highlighted.

I think this may be a bad attempt to give the text some depth by dropping an offset feathered text behind the hot title text. If also seems like the x y coordinates of this background effect vary with position on the menu screen.

I haven't figured out how to get around it yet, but I suspect all uppercase and a san serif type face may be required. Or else doing everything in Photoshop and using text images.

Hopefully someone at SF has noticed this.

R.