On 30 Jan 2002 06:28:15 GMT, crossbo2@aol.com (Crossbo2) wrote:

>I have been trying to create titles in Premiere. I follow the standard
>settings and I end up creating titles that are blurry. I can read them but
>when I export it to video and try to view them on the television they become
>even blurrier.
>
>Is there a way to make more legible titles in Premiere??
>
>Please help!!

Part of the problem is with Mini-DV itself, great as it is
in most ways. Getting clean keying is a bit of a challenge
with it, though... With text, it helps to select "screen
fonts" (especially fonts without seraphs, or with large
seraphs, with few thin sections in the letters, and with
minimum horizontal straight lines [sometimes italics
work better]), making them as large as possible, edging them
in black (using the drop-shadow at "2", repeated for at
least two opposite of the four possible directions), and
using colors that produce the cleanest text (avoid red
and orange, try pure yellow [though it is not a "TV-safe"
color] and "222" grey - run tests to see what works best).
Other "tricks": avoid keying over motion-video, (unless
you use Ulead's CG Infinity, and import motion-video into
the titler), place titles over black, and import title panels
from a drawing program (made double-sized) instead of
using Premiere's titler (though I have had good results
with the Premiere titler - used with "deflicker"...).
BTW, if you are using software overlay on a computer
monitor for judging, the results may look softer for
everything than they will appear on a TV...