Text getting bad quality

Pipson wrote on 1/5/2005, 10:21 AM
Hi,
I hace two problems actually, first of all, whenever I create a text and using a font size below ~60´, it's quality is very bad and blurry. Does anyone have the same problem or could it be a problem with my settings?

And when I insert a picture bigger than my current frame size, it automaticly changes to the same size. If I change the size in pan/crop or track motion the resolution is terrible and you can't even read the text. Any one how to insert the image in it's priginal resolution?

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/5/2005, 10:52 AM
What is your preview monitor quality set to? It needs to be BEST/Full to show the highest quality
Pipson wrote on 1/5/2005, 10:58 AM
The problems remains after I've rendered it and the preview window is set best. Thanks anyway.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/5/2005, 11:32 AM
OK.. more information is always best.

Please tell us...
what template / format / reolution are you rendering to ?
What are your project settings (format/resolution)
Does the text look bad in the preview monitor - or only after you render?



Pipson wrote on 1/5/2005, 7:15 PM
NTSC DV (720x480; 29,970 fps)

It doesn't matter what rendering settings I use, I'be tried alot of different.

The text looks bad in both the preview monitor and the render
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/5/2005, 7:45 PM
I guess you have me stumped. Can't figure out why you have such poor results.
John_Cline wrote on 1/5/2005, 8:09 PM
What style of fonts are you using? Ornate, thin fonts with serifs don't look particularly good when rendered to video. Fairly bold, simple fonts work the best.

John
Pipson wrote on 1/5/2005, 8:20 PM
Unfortantly, it doesn't matter what fonts I use, the results are always pretty bad
rmack350 wrote on 1/5/2005, 9:18 PM
Any DV format will make a mess of your fonts so it's a good idea to keep text and graphic elements on their own tracks and away from the DV footage. If you want to render all the transitions in your DV tracks, turn off the graphics tracks and render just the DV to a new track. From that point you can render into other formats and things should look pretty good. Of course If you eventually write it all out to DV tape the those text and graphic elements will take a hit.

As far as the image resizing thing, this is what Vegas does. It always tries to size things to their "best fit" in the frame. It also assumes that stills have square pixels (a 1.0 Pixel Aspect Ratio) and then it corrects them for your project. You can't change this behavior so you need to learn to bend in the breeze, Grasshopper.

Play with it a bit and you'll get used to it, I hope.

Rob Mack