Do certian Font's render differently?


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Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires (rwspires) on Apr 28, 2008 at 6:29:01 pm

Do certain fonts render poorly ... It seams when I render it out .. burn to a disk .. the font is not "solid".. advice?

not solid = shakey, low rez...

Font = Goudy old style

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Joey Foreman on Apr 28, 2008 at 6:51:02 pm

If you're rendering out to DV/NTSC it will look bad.
If you're not going back to tape, render out in Animation Codec

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires on Apr 28, 2008 at 6:58:14 pm

Like?

I am trying one with the AJA avi codec...

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Joey Foreman on Apr 28, 2008 at 7:01:36 pm

Like what?

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires on Apr 28, 2008 at 7:07:54 pm

Specific codec choice under the drop down menu of the all the choices in AE

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Joey Foreman on Apr 28, 2008 at 7:55:54 pm

um...maybe read my first response again.

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires on Apr 28, 2008 at 8:00:33 pm

Ok I Do not understand your first response...

Thanks for your help.. guess I need to do some reading

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Ben Heusner on Apr 28, 2008 at 8:13:48 pm

Animation is a Quicktime codec. It's an RGB codec that's lossless at 100% quality setting, which is why it's recommended as an intermediary codec.

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires on Apr 28, 2008 at 8:20:10 pm

Thanks .. Soooooooo

I need to render to Quicktime movie(set all the adjustable settings to "best") if I am going to burn it to a DVD to view before it goes to TV?

If that is not correct please step me through it .. I have always just renered out to windows avi... Please forgive the ignorance. I am sure for many tech guys this is soo elementary. I am a far stronger on the creative side. I feel the same way when I watch a tech guy try to be creative .. lol

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by robert reed on Apr 28, 2008 at 9:05:49 pm

The Windows AVI is the culprit that is causing you the artifacting onscreen.

If you render out to Quicktime's own Animation codec, it is lossless codec and will create a file that has far fewer artifacts. This happens as it is not interpolating the resulting final pixels by trying to combine pixels together, which is what lossy codecs do. A lossless codec creates a 1-to-1 file that captures all the pixels.

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Darby Edelen on Apr 29, 2008 at 6:45:39 am

[robert reed] "The Windows AVI is the culprit that is causing you the artifacting onscreen.

If you render out to Quicktime's own Animation codec, it is lossless codec and will create a file that has far fewer artifacts."

Not necessarily, an AVI can be lossless. The default 'Lossless' option on a windows version of AE produces an AVI.

Do you see the blockiness in a lossless render out of AE or after you've compressed it for DVD? What are you viewing the file with? Is there a noticeable decrease in quality from AE to your rendered file (it looks good in AE before you render)? If you import the rendered file back into AE does it look better? So many questions =)

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Re: Do certian Font's render differently?
by Reggie Spires on Apr 29, 2008 at 1:32:45 pm

Ok

Actually it doesn't look good in AE... it is White text on top of graphic still of outer space (stars and such).. Why is the font so thin looking and wavy (not destorted on the edges but wavey inside each letter

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