Text Overlay in Vegas 4

[mtremel]

Hi all...

Im am trying to render an mpg stream (ntsc film 720x480) with a transparent text overlay (same res as video)created in photoshop7. On the rendered mpg the text is no longer smooth and crisp. Has anyone else seen this?

[kabanero]

Hi mtremel,

1. Did you create you text in Photoshop as anti-alias?
2. Create your text overlay directly in Vegas. I did that and it looks very good.

Regards.

[BJ_M]

also you may be creating your txt in photoshop at the wrong resolution .. if you made it at 720x480 - that is incorrect because that will be changed as your video is at .909 aspect ratio and you made the txt at 1:1 aspect ratio

[mtremel]

Ok...
So the text can not be anti-alised? I would directly make it in vegas, except its for a motion menu so it needs to line up.

BJ_M, should the overlay be created as 720x540? The source video is only 720x480.

Thanks for help.