Blurry Titles

[Ponderer]

I've noticed that when I create titles in UVS8 they seem really nice and crisp when they are created, but as soon as they are played back, they appear "fuzzy". Is this my imagination or is this really a problem. Anybody got a solution?

[rwindeyer]

Is that in preview mode (which is just an approximation of what the final result will be) or in the final rendered product? If it is the latter then there is a problem which needs to be addressed.

[Ponderer]

It's in preview mode,.

[Daz]

That's your 'problem' then - VS8 plays preview titles in lower quality. When you render it the titles will be perfect. Fear not!

Daz

[david reece]

even in the final movie they can look blurred. this is due to interlacing the image i believe.

I have to say that Pin 9 appears to do titles better than VS8. I am not selling it to you just an observation!.

However the pinnacle manual states to get good titles on digital video you need to

1) add a border to your letters (VS8 allows this) ie white letters need to have a slight yellow border
2) add some shadow (VS8 allows this) place this behind the letters if possible so over laps just slightly.

I have followed this in VS8 and it seems to improve the situation somewhat.

[ngibbs]

I'm appalled with the blurry titles. They are unacceptable. Several years ago I used an old version of Ulead (5?) which had less choices, but the titles looked smooth and crisp, without any special borders, etc. I used Movie Maker for awhile, and I just bought version 9 (and will mention my $30 upgrade rebate was rejected, shame on Ulead). Adding a title was the first thing I did, and haven't gotten past the issue. Rendering to an MPEG2 file didn't make them any better.

I played the sample-NTSC.VSP, those titles look blurry too. I rendered the sample to an MPEG2 file, and those did get better. I loaded Ulead onto another machine, the samples look bad there too. There must be some setting I'm missing, I can't believe Ulead would allow such a degradation from previous versions.

[ngibbs]

i think I'm remembering some things. I think the issue might be too much compression. Go into File/Project Properties. Change the Edit File Format to be Microsoft AVI files. When you render (share), click on create video file, then select "same as project settings". This means your output will be an AVI file. The file is huge, but the titles look much better, still not as great as I remember. Let me know if it works for you. I still think there must be a better solution.

[ngibbs]

Better yet. Read the first post, entitled AVOID PROBLEMS:...