Text fussy Blury
I'm reordering some pages of text off the internet with the app iShowU HD,
trying to do an on screen tutorial to output to DVD. I'm also mixing it with HDV footage from my canon XH-A1. All the stuff I recorded with iShowU is set up to capture the same size as my sequence setting in FC 1440x1080i60. When I run a small test, 20sec sequence or so from FCP, send that to Compressor, use the DVD: best quality 90 minutes setting in Compressor. Then do my thing in DVDSP well you can't even read the text anymore. I'm going from HD to SD in compressor on purpose. I need the text in this project to crisp, as it should be. Thanks in advance.
Tim
Go to Compressor for your graphics, use constant bit rate.
Your description of "fussy Blury [sic]" is not helpful.
Capturing footage from a display is usually done at the pixel density of the display. Making up some numbers for illustration only, let's say a single glyph, a capital "O," exists as black pixels within the bounds of a 32-pixel square ob white pixels on your screen. when you move that to SD it's going to not only suddenly occupy a square that is only 6-10 pixels square, the adjacent pixels--those that provided the anti-aliasing information that gave the illusion of clarity--are also being encoded ad averaged.
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