[MacDV] Re: Twitchy Titles Twice Told

[Mark M. Florida]

It could also be that he's using a PostScript font without the outline 
half of the font pair.  For those not familiar with font issues, a 
PostScript font has two parts: the bitmap (or "screen" font) which is 
used to help the computer render it on-screen, and an outline (or 
"printer" font) file which is usually used for crisp printing of the 
typeface, but may also be needed at certain point sizes for clean 
on-screen rendering.  Mac OS X supports PostScript fonts natively (as 
long as you have both screen and printer font files in one of the 
"Fonts" folders), but with Mac OS 9 you need Adobe's ATM (the free 
version, not ATM Deluxe) to display and print PostScript fonts reliably.

Try a different font that you *know* works properly in other programs, 
or find a TrueType version of the font he wants to use.

Hope this helps.

- Mark


On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 10:20  AM, Tim Beaton wrote:

> Have a look at this page:-
> http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/perfect_titles_phil.html
> some good ideas for improving titling in DV. The major problem isn't 
> so much
> FCP as the DV 4:1:1 (ntsc) or 4:2:0 sampling (PAL), with some "help" 
> from
> the codec itself. Try Phillips ideas, they worked pretty well for me!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobbo [mailto:bobbo924 at earthlink.net]
> Sent: 17 December 2002 16:08
> To: Macintosh Digital Video List
> Subject: [MacDV] Twitchy Titles Twice Told
>
>
> Hi, list.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> B
>
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