Fuzzy Lettering Problem

1. starcityfame
   Member

   

   Ok, I don't care so much about this when it's just an uploaded YouTube video, since most peeps don't bother to open up the window to full screen... BUT, when I do lettering for television broadcast, I need titles and animated lettering to be crisp.

   For some reason, regardless what file-type or bit-rate or even frame size I render to, the damn letters come out fuzzy. What the heck am I doing wrong??

   I've used generated media and simple add text clips. I even tried with solid backgrounds, basic fonts, various highlight settings, sharpness corrections, doesn't matter. I even closed Vegas Pro 9 out and rebooted. Same crap.

   I tried various settings on the text clip itself... interlaced, lower, progressive. I haven't tried changing session properties to 32 bit - it's at the default 8 bit. No clue what that does, anyway.

   I'm intermediate with this stuff, but now I feel like a newbie.

   http://starcityfame.com (Roanoke, VA)

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Chuck Zoots
   Member

   

   Try rendering in 32 bit it makes a huge difference in the details in video and titles . I used Vegas 9 until I moved up to 10 but the first time i tried the 32 bit I was amazed at the difference in video quality. I have even edited in 8 bit but done the rendering in 32 bit with good results

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. starcityfame
   Member

   

   Thanks Chuck. Will try now! (Plus I'm re-reading text info in the PDF manual, so if all else fails... LOL!) I'll report back hopefully with success. :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. Johnboy
   Member

   

   First, make all your text events twice the size of your template. (i.e. project is 720x480, text event is 1440x960) and avoid serif fonts and watch those color levels, ensuring black doesn't go below 16,16,16 and white doesn't go above 235,235,235

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. starcityfame
   Member

   

   Awesome, thanks Johnboy!

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. rory cooper
   Member

   

   I find that you don’t want to resample text, this is what can cause problems

    

   So match your project “square pixel is best” to the same as project out put or final render size so that no resampling takes place during the render

   Even for the text square pixel and same PAR AND SIZE.

   Set RGB filter to studio RGB fx on the video bus track  “cont shift b” = bus track and apply fx filter there

   if you overlay text on images the video blocking can cause problems between text and images

   Also render to mp4/x264 use the web template from Vegas this will help

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. starcityfame
   Member

   

    Thanks Rory... I wasn't getting email updates on replies. Sorry. I think the problem is corrected, but I definitely will give the bus track fx filter a try.

   Posted 6 months ago #

8. EarlC
   Moderator

   

   Wow, SCF, where ya been?

   Posted 6 months ago #

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