Live Type quality output

I am using LiveType to setup titles for my FCE video. When I render the titles, they are poor quality. I have render set to Normal. How do I get better results?

Is Live Type vector based fonts? I thought it was. But I noticed that by moving the text postion on the screen the quality changes from smooth edges to jagged...???
Also the quality changes if I apply a drop shadow over "5" on the setting.
I have a clear background on the top of video footage.<
Are you watching your rendered output on an interlaced monitor or the computer monitor?
LiveType uses your vector system fonts where it can but the animated LiveFonts are either procedural renders or they are little movies, depending on the source font's series.
I can tell you this: LiveType produces lovely, sharp and cool text effects. Your settings and your output viewing options make all the difference.
bogiesan

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New to Mac, so bare with me.
When I drop live type graphics in timeline and play with the built in audio, plays fine. When I output it to mini dv to record via firewire, and hit play the audio is fine till the timeline marker goes past the end of the graphic, then the audio drops out for a few seconds, then its o.k. again. This happens on every graphic, no exceptions. Now the audio is coming through the NTSC speakers.
Funny thing though, we I play back the recorded tape, the audio plays fine.
The audio also plays fine on the built in speakers. Onlu when outputted to firewire to the mini dv.
This is very annoying.
Can someone help please?
Using a LaCie 500 gig firewire drive, via the 800 firewire port.
Thanks

Not to be ignorant ha ha.
How do I mix down the audio? Do you think that if I hit play on the timeline and then hit record on dv, that might work?
Will give that a shot though!
Thanks,Jerry
Gerard

Can't select paper type or output quality when printing from new imac....

Not sure if I'm in the right place to post this question....
When I try to print (from ANY app; Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) to my hp business jet inkjet printer, I get a print menu, but no where on the print menu (or any pulldown tabs) do I have an opportunity to select paper type or output quality. I am unable to print photos, for example.
The printer worked fine with the old PC; there is no driver to d/l for mac.
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Yes, I opened the Printer Driver package, and then pulled up my test InDesign file and selected File>Print, and here's the screen i get: (hope this works, I'm trying Skitch for the first time)...
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when I click on "Setup" in the print menu box, I get this screen:
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I've clicked on each topic on the left on the Print menu, and still there is no where to select paper type or output resolution.
The same thing happens when I print from Photoshop.
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Live Type Render Quality

If I create just the text and export .ipr file into FCP I noticed that the letters outline look pixilated, jagged against the still background. If I import that background into Live Type and export into FCP including the background it looks perfect. Very interesting discovery.
Is this normal?

In addition to what Big Daddy Sheffield said, could your issue be related to the fact that LiveType (as well as Motion) produce premultiplied with black alpha channels? That is, upon importing the .ipr file, you're altering the Alpha type - either in the Browser or in the Item Properties dialog - to Black, right?
By default, FCP interprets alpha as Straight and, in the case of premultiplied by black alpha channels, this produces a black fringe around your elements (which can come across as pixelated outlines). If you're the type to use black outlines on your type, this might not matter, but I figure it's worth a mention.
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Can Flex make a Design Tool with a quality output file?

Hi there,
I have a team of developers working on a web-based design tool for a large-format print shop. They built the prototype on a Flex platform and used ImageMagick to handle text and image effects.
Unfortunately, ImageMagick cannot produce the quality of output file we need for our products (prints up to 3 ft by 6 ft / 1m x 2m). It rasterizes all of the design objects, including text and vector clipart.
Is it possible for Flex to handle all of these elements (object rotation, scale changes, etc.) and output a final design to high quality PDF or AI files without ImageMagick?
I'm just not sure if my developers are missing something or if they're just not communicating the technical challenges involved in creating such large, high quality output files for a custom, web-based application.
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In that case, you could do this in a number of ways, but the best might be -
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</head>
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I do volunteer work in a non-profit that interfaces with local county government. We've been discussing a project to produce an atlas-type information as a service to the residents. The maps would be rendered by the GIS software the county uses (ESRI's Arc suite). The question is what file format should we ask for given the high-quality print and plot output we have in mind and our desire to add some simple vector markup in some cases to the maps. The markup, when used, would be simple circles, rectangles, arrows or text.
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Since I think its best to envision a PDF as a "box" for other data, is the quality of the output going to be determined by the data density of the object inside the PDF?
I know I may not be very clear so please help me get clear on the question if I haven't expressed it well here.
BTW, I know I can place a PDF into an AI object and then add the vector stuff if needed, but I don't know from a workflow perspective if that's the best way to assure hight quality output.
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What I want to do is somehow make my entire iMovie project smaller by compressing it somehow but without losing any footage or audio or quality. At the moment the project is a 56GB iMovie project lasting approx 1hr. I have a mixture of miniDV footage, titles created in Live Type (they are better quality than anything available in iMovie) and audio.
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I'm having trouble with placing a background movie in live type. I encoded a 5 second movie in HDV 1080i60... I've set my project properties to HDV1080i60 and when I place the movie in the background it squeezes it to 4:3. Am I missing something? Thanks for any help!
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Thanks Christina. I've set my project properties to 1080i60 and encoded my video using compressor and using a Quicktime conversion. they both output the correct file. my canvas in LIve Type is set to the 1080i60 but when I place the movie it snaps to what looks like a 4:3 format.
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Everytime I try to use the Place command and import a graphic, Live Type just shuts down. How do I fix this?
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That's interesting Todd. You're on 10.4.5, and "Place" selection crashes Live Type. I'm getting the same thing on 10.4.3, so upgrading the OS may not solve my problem. Plus I don't want to upgrade the OS in the middle of a project. Bad Idea!
However I have a second system with 10.4.5, and the "Place" and "Place movie" work fine. So for the time being I'm going to build th graphics there. A workaround, but it's a little cumbersome.
I tried rebooting, reparing permissions, deleting preferences for LT, but those didn't help.
My next step is to re-install LT only, but I don't want to do this until I output the project I'm working on. (It's two months in the making, and I don't want to mess anything up.) I know it's overly cautious, but there's too much at stake.
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Help with live type in fce

hi, I created a title and intro in live type for fce. In live type the quality is excellent. when opened & viewed in fce in the viewer the quality is also excellent. but when the text is then placed on the timeline the quality of the text is seriously degraded. It is very jagged, rough and pixelated. I am stumped and have been fighting this for days. any help would be great. I am new to the program. The project properties for my live type document are:
apple intermediate codec 1080i60
width-1920px 26.67inches at 72.0 dpi
height-1080px 11.25 inches at 96.0 dpi
frame rate-29.97 fps
field dominance - none
pixel aspect - 1.00
start time-0:00:00;00
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quality - all 3 are set to normal
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apple intermediate codec 1080i60
frame rate-29.97fps
frame size - 1920x1080
pixel aspect - square
field dominance - none
alpha - none
composite - normal
I have tried every other combo with the live type set up and nothing works. Does any one have a fix for this? thanks
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In LiveType / Edit / Project Properties (command+0) / Presets HDV 1080i60...
In Final Cut Express / Easy Setup (control-Q) HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60...
Import the LiveType project file directly into Final Cut Express...
Regards
Nolan

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I have exported the movie both to iDVD and a DV video camera which I have played onto a tv but the titles still look pixilated when imported but perfectly crisp if I play the .mov file from livetype. Am I using the wrong project settings?? I have tried different ones but no good. I really want to use the live type titles but they don't look good in my movie. HELP!

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Hi there, Somebody Help!!!
I've got live type text that i'm exporting into FC5. When I put it on my time line it comes up blocky and interlaced. If I change my time line settinges to no fields it makes the live type text clear but then it adversely affects the footage in the time line.
My live type project settings are the same as my FC5 settings. I've tried either rendering out the LT text as a rendered movie or just doing the quick import as a live type file.
Does anybody please have any info, its driving me up the wall.
Cheers
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We see similar questions often so you could try scrolling down a few months to review past posts.
Our usual response is that you must view the final render on your target video output monitor. You cannot rely on the computer display for accurate pixel/field display since it is a low-rez and frame-only, progressive display.
There was a bug in an earlier release that had the field setting reversed so you can always try changing that, too.
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I created some lower thirds using Live Type, then I imported them into FCP. When I edit them onto my timeline it looks really bad (not sharp)...why?

njs21 wrote:
I did not realize the canvas shows a low res image. that is not too comforting though.
You're new, obviously. We all were at one time or another. Your Canvas is a small window inside the interface of your editing application running on a computer screen. You can think of it like the page preview function in Photoshop, it's an approximation; you won't really know what your page is going to look like till you print it. But with lots of experience, you begin to be able to predict what various filters and effects will look like on different types of paper stocks on different printers.
njs21 wrote:
When it is all done rendering and exporting it will be high res?
Maybe. Depends on how you've got your rendering settings sets set up. Generally, yes, if you read that part of the manual carefully and follow the steps. But you won't know till you've gone all the way to your output format and evaluated your work on your final media's display.
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