[MacDV] Re: Twitchy Titles Twice Told

Randy Wilson WilsonR at fonix.com
Tue Dec 17 09:55:21 PST 2002


> A friend is having problems in both iMovie and FCP trying to get decent
> titles. He's using a simple, non-serif font, and the dang thing looks
> pixelated, perhaps anti-aliased to me. i.e., it looks blockish, and 
> some of
> the pixels seem darker than others. The overall effect is similar to 
> what
> you'd find if you zoomed in to, say, 400% on a small anti-aliased,
> rasterized bit of text in Photoshop. Is this a known titling issue in 
> BOTH
> these programs? Any workarounds?

Is the problem in the final output (i.e., on video)? Or are you just seeing
the problem on the computer screen? The fonts often look ugly on the
screen in order to display quickly during playback, but are fine in the
final rendered output to video.  Just wondering.



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