CCE vs TMPGenc - text anomaly?

[Nelson37]

I am creating a short introductory clip with large, scrolling text with borders, using Ulead Media Studio. On the AVI, the text is very clear, with only minimal stairstepping on the borders. Encoded MPG2, 4-pass, Avg 2500 with CCE, the main body of the letters has large, obvious stairsteps in it. Using TMPGENC, 2-pass, AVG 2500, the jaggies are much smaller, although the overall picture is significantly blurrier. Again, these jaggies in the main body of the letter (not the border) are absolutely not present in the AVI.

I have tried interlaced and de-interlaced AVI, resized to 352x480 or left at 720x480, no change.

First, I am surprised to see this effect at all, second why it is so pronounced in CCE, and third does anyone have any better settings for CCE and large text display?

[Boooooommm]

You text will get distorted every time you change the original resolution. My suggestion is to leave the original resolution, or otherwise, the text will loook all ugly. Not many encoders work right with text.

[bbb]

Make sure that you are using anti-aliased rendering in best mode. I don't use Ulead but there should be that option.

Next, keep the resizing step at the last stage of the encoding process. It will take longer to encode but it will look better.

[Nelson37]

Thanks for the info.

The solution involved NOT using the text generated by Ulead but using instead WordArt text from Word 97, with NO Italics. This removed the jaggies.

Mosquito artifacts were solved by applying a blur filter before rendering as VCD.