Text on television

when i burn my final project, my text is at 13 point and when it plays on my TV it is blurry,messy, pretty much unreadable. I know my TV is REALLY crappy (hooked up through Composite cable) but i was just wondering if there is some specifications on text size or is there some special trick to get it to look perfect? Some compression tips or maybe i'm not setting it up right.
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I meant sans serif when I mentioned "chunky" - I'm from a graphics background so know all about such things but am never sure if most people necessarily know what serif and sans serif mean (I've worked with clients that have asked for big black bold bold fonts!!!!)
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50151
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Hi all,
This is only my second post so please be gentle ;P
Basically, my problem is that i want to read certain chunks of a text file into different text boxes. For example, this may be 50 lines in textbox1, then 50 in textbox2, then the rest in textbox3. i know this would involve using a splitter, but i have absolutelyno
idea how i would go about implementation this. any help would be greatly appreciated on this.
my second problem is that i also need to carry out testing on my system. one page in this is the login page. I understand that normal data would be all correct fields and erroneous data would be blank field(s). however, i dont really know what would be boundary
testing for this. The only thing i could think of is correct username but incorrect password but i dont think this is correct. again, any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
LTID
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.fileio.textfieldparser(v=vs.110).aspx
Option Strict On
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End While
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Why does onscreen text look so good on the computer
and so terrible in the finished project?! I need
suggestions as to a Font, Setting, color,
Something....that will make the text look good on
video & DVD.
Type that looks good on video may not look good on DVD if it is too small--below say 20 / 22 points-- and has serifs. When compressing to MPEG2 both of these factors can cause the type to break down and become a blob of pixels rather than defined characters.
I've tried sans serif and
serif fonts, added and removed drop shadow, tried
outlining, etc. All looks well on a still frame, but
when you playback, it wiggles, it's blurry, it's
awful. It has always been thus!
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I'd be willing to use LiveType if necessary,
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i've seen your video and your text seems fine to me. are you planning to ever have this broadcast on television? if so then there may be an issue. but if everything is webcast then it looks fine. i'd tell you to view everything on an NTSC monitor before air but i'm not sure if you are going to need it.
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