Titles rendered off center in VS9?

TJ2 · Post by **TJ2** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:58 pm

Hi,

I'm hoping someone has seen this before. I have a color background (via the VS9 color function) on the video track and two lines of titles on the title track. One title fades in/out and one turns in/out. In editing and preview, the titles are aligned in the center of the screen. During render, they become noticably offset to the left (maybe 10% of screen width). They are both still aligned on their centers, but offset the same amount.

My project is setup for NTSC 4:3, with 704 x 480 MPEG2 (upper field first) as both raw video (from DVD camcorder) and rendered video.

Thanks for any suggestions or thoughts you might have!

Tim

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:32 pm

Tim,
I would recommend that you use 720 x 480 if you are intending to write to NTSC DVDs (720 x 576 for PAL). This may fix the offcenter problem.
John

TJ2 · Post by **TJ2** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:14 pm

Thanks John. If I use 720x480 then my video will rerender. I'd like to keep the best (original) quality if I can. But maybe rerendering 704x480 to 720x480 won't cause a noticable quality degradation (I've never tried it). I've rendered my usual 704x480 before with titles and no problems in VS7, but I'd like to use my new VS9 for current and future projects.

Tim

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:45 pm

TJ2 wrote: But maybe rerendering 704x480 to 720x480 won't cause a noticable quality degradation (I've never tried it).

It will, especially if your going up. You could add a few spaces on the side that it offset. Not exactly a fix but perhaps you have found a bug in the program.

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:40 pm

TJ,
It would be best if you recaptured at 720x480 because this would give you the best quality. I agreee with Coalman that rendering the change may dimish quality somewhat.
It really all depends on the quality level of your capture source. If it is from VCR tapes or TV, forgetaboutit. If from Hi8 thru S-Video connection there might be a noticible quality difference.
John

TJ2 · Post by **TJ2** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:35 am

Hi John -- My DVD camcorder records direct to DVD-R in 704x480 MPEG2. That's the source of my video. I know DV is preferable for editing, but I like the DVD camcorder for my needs. For the little project I'm doing now, I can get around the problem by compensating my title positions to the right. But on a bigger project, that would be a real time killer. Thanks again for your help and I'm open to any other suggestions!

Tim

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:03 am

TJ,
In NTSC land, if my source media was a DVD at 704x480, I would complete the editing, then create a video file, re-rendering at that time to 720x480 before trying to burn a DVD. Then I would "burn" disk image files and see if I liked the result. If so, I would burn the DVD.
John

TJ2 · Post by **TJ2** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 1:05 pm

Thanks John! I'll try the re-render and see how it comes out.

Tim