Poor quality rendered titles

[redlester]

Have just reached a point where I'm happy with the render quality on my first proper attempt at a camcorder DV to DVD conversion. I'm using Premiere Pro for editing, and TMPGenc Plus for encoding, using the settings suggested here: http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html?PHPSESSID=bc77cdaecb834614acad17d7cb52d937

Only problem is, it's a video of a gig by a local band and I've used some titles at the beginning of each song and again at the end of the movie. I created the titles using the Adobe Title Designer built into Premiere Pro. The titles are white, Gill Sans MT Condensed, 70pt. The lettering is set to fade in, remain static for a few seconds, then fade out.

The font on the final burned DVD looks a bit raggedy-edged on any curved areas of the lettering, such as letter "O" or "S" etc. Not as pin sharp as I would have hoped. Is there some setting in the encoding process which may cause this problem?

[redlester]

OK have sussed this one myself via trial and error.

The problem is not in the encoding to mpeg, it's in the export from Premiere to avi.

I was using the "Microsoft DV AVI" option on export. Have now tried using "Microsoft AVI" but with the Panasonic DV codec, and results are noticeably better.

Interestingly, if I export as Microsoft AVI with no compression at all, the titles look pin sharp, but the actual video footage quality is not as good as with the Panasonic codec.

[Arky]

If you haven't already done so, you might like to try using anti-aliasing.

Apart from making the character's edges look smoother, anti-aliasing will also make them apear more stable on the screen, since interlacing can make fine details appear to flicker on screen.


Arky ;o)