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Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 13:12:26 PDT
> No, I'm not looking at them on an NTCS monitor. Consequently I
> did expect to see some softness. What I didnt expect was the
> jagged, stepped edges that appear on the text once rendered.
> They look absolutely dreadful.
Since you are only seeing half the vidoe fields they will look jagged.
When using FCP there is no way to know
exactly what you are getting untill you view it on an NTSC monitor.
What looks terrible on a monitor can look o.k. on a TV with all the
fields present. You might find what you are getting acceptable.
Someone else mentioned the type of font, that is 100% correct, FCP just
can't give you clean looking titles if you use a font with thin lines
or a lot of feature.
A common workflow for text is to create it as vector art in
illustrator, pull that art into After Effects, animate it, out put it
from AE as a movie file and drop it into your FCP timeline. that give
the best results, People are also getting good results with boris and
live type but live type tends to look fairly generic since its an
assembly tool.
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