Shimmering red text

[terry dennis]

I have just rendered a movie that I have been working on and I have used RED text for some of the captions. I have RED on a black static background and RED on a white and blue video background. It looks great when viewing on my desktop flat screen monitor but the RED 'shimmers' when I play the rendered DVD back on my flatscreen LCD lounge TV !!

Is RED a 'No-No' when preparing titles or is there some way round this problem?

Terry D.

[Black Lab]

Yes, red is one of those colors that over-saturates. Try enabling the color filter (File>Preferences) if you haven't done so already.

[laurentje]

... It looks great when viewing on my desktop flat screen monitor but the RED 'shimmers' when I play the rendered DVD back on my flatscreen LCD lounge TV !!

Is RED a 'No-No' when preparing titles or is there some way round this problem?

Terry D.

Is "shimmer" not an aliasing artefact? See http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/V ... asing.html

The problem is with the DVD and a TV; a problem because interlaced video?

[terry dennis]

Jeff

Thanks for that bit of information. I did indeed have the colour filter off in order to get at a bigger range of colours from the colour palettes so time ago.
I switched the filter on , re-rendered and it made a big difference.

I shall have to remember in future not to use RED in titling. Are there any other colours that one should use with caution ?

Thanks again

Terry D.

[Black Lab]

Glad I could help.

You can use red, you just have to tone it down a bit. This article may help to explain: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/fami ... index.html

[Ken Berry]

The red in the VS colour mattes does not flicker. IIRC it also, when you hover your mouse over the matte gives the RGB figures for it, so you can set the colour of your title letters to match.