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Anyone have this 'problem'?

Whenever I 'roll' the credits in a project, they look terrible, they aren't solid, they seem to "wiggle" Any ideas?
 
Hard to say. Are you talking about on your screen or on a TV? Did you build your credits in Photoshop or in FCP's text thingy? General text wiggle is usually due to a too small font size.
 
It is the DV compression 5 :1 being added to the font. If you do it in an uncompressed 10 bit project and export a uncompressed or Mpeg it will look clean and crisp
 
I do it in FCP. It's only when I 'scroll' credits.

If I created the credits in photoshop, how would I scroll them? Keyframes?
 
yes. even if you do it in FCP if you are in a DV48Hz sequence then it has to conform to the DV 5 to 1 compresstion. And if you made it in photoshop and brought it in to a DV sequence the it will not look good either.
 
Well you do an offline online work flow. Meaning you do all your edit in a DV sequence. Then when you do titles, color corection ect. You will do it in an uncompressed 8 or 10bit seqence. That way there will be no compression on your graphics. So you just use easy set up in FCP to work in an uncompressed project. But you have to remember it take allot more room then DV
 
I've created credit scrolls in Photoshop, brought them into a standard DV timeline, rendered it out and it looks smooth as a baby's bottom. I am curious to try your technique there, imgentertainment, to see if the additional steps make much difference. For graphics, DVD menu movies, etc, anything you can do to keep the resolution up sounds like a good plan to me.
 
exactly. Why add a compression that you don't have to. FCP works in the codec you tell it to. So if you say I want to work in the DV codec. Everything you bring into FCP, Weather footage or graphics, animation, ect. Will have to be subject to the DV codec rules and compression. Meaning it will have a 5:1 on it. Now I have brought graphics in and they have looked fine. And other times they look terible. But when you work in an umcompressed codec space as much as possible you will not have those problem.
 
problems with text?

problems with text?

Another solution would be to keep in DV Codec, but to put compression markers on the areas with any text elements. These markers can be set for a duration to overlap the duration of the text, so that the project does not become unnecessarily large. In building text within an FCP timeline, at the beginning of the text pres "mm" (m twice), and it will bring up a marker window, where you can select compression marker and input the duration of the marker. When you export as a quicktime, select "observe compression marker" and this isolated section of the product with export uncompressed. I have found that it raises the quality in terms of text edge aliasing and wiggle quite a bit....
 
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