On Mon, 07 May 2001 12:06:09 +1200, Al Grant wrote:

>Probably another newbie question. I have added some very simple Titles
>in Premier. White on Black.
>
>The Title was created in Adobe Photoshop and is Aliased. After
>rendering and sending the title sequence to DV I play it back on TV.
>
>Around the Edges is some white that almost looks like it spilled over.
>
>In other words the Edge is not as clearly defined as I would expect
>and their is also some white actaully outside the title.
>
>I hope I have formulated tis question clearly - does anybody have any
>suggestions?

For creating titles using Premiere's titler, I use "222, 222,
222" for "white" (less "blooming", still looks white)
or other colors (generally avoiding pure red and orange),
and if the background is not black, I use two (2, 2 and
-2, -2 placement) or four (2, 2; -2, -2; -2, 2; 2, -2
placement) black hard-edged shadows to define the text
edges and separate them from background colors that may
cause aliasing (I use "ctr-C" to copy the first title, "ctr-V"
to paste each copy directly on top of the last, changing
the shadow direction of each copy - faster to do than it
seems...;-), I often use pure green backgrounds, but use
the default (white alpha matte?) transparency and no
additional filters or controls (except the motion tool,
video filters, etc. - but nothing else is needed for clean
edges). After much struggle experimenting with text to
make it clean-looking in DV-Premiere, this has worked
well (as has using CG-Infinity, Crystal-Graphics, and
titles created in the Micrografx Picture Publisher
title-wizzard for more "designed" titles - but it is
amazing how nice simple Premiere-generated titles
can look, especially with some motion added [and
maybe size-changing, key-framed filters like blur, etc.]).