Ugly titles

I'm trying to put the finishing titles on my project but it comes up distorted when I export to Compressor. My project is DVC Pro-NTSC, and the credits were done with the "type writer" function. When I play the movie in Final Cut it looks fine, but once exported lots of lines distort the image and it looks very unsteady. The Final Cut User Manual recommends using bold font, a non-white or black color, and only several specific fonts. I tried this and it still didn't work. However, I would like to use a white font plus the "Americana Typewriter" font, both of which are not recommended by the manual. Is there any way of doing this?

I'm going to guess that you are viewing the file produced by Compressor in QuickTime Player.
What you are seeing is the result of viewing interlaced video on a flat panel computer monitor.
What is the intended end result of your project -a DVD, the web, something else?
There's something you can do for the moment:
With the file open in QuickTime Player, press the command and J keys to bring up the Properties window. Click on *Video Track* in the list at the top, then *Visual Settings*. At the bottom right corner, you will see three checkboxes. Activate *High Quality* and Deinterlace.
Does that look better?
Don't save the file in this format yet, we still need to know what the end result is going to be.
You can activate the High Quality selection permanently by going to the menu bar:
QuickTime Player > Preferences > General > Always use high quality video setting.
There's nothing technically wrong with using the American Typewriter font.
Generally, Serif fonts and others with thin, delicate strokes should be avoided -although they can still look good at larger sizes. If your main goal is high legibility at smaller sizes stick with San-Serif typefaces.
Serifs are the little flares on the end of letters. These fine details can easily be lost and break up on a television screen.
A well known example of a Serif font is Times.
A well known example of a San-Serif font is Helvetica.

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Message Edited by Hightop Raven on 05-02-2007 03:37 PM
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