Just to clarify, when you say you are adding text, does that mean you are adding subtitles from the Subtitles tab? If so, I can't imagine that the quality of the video would affect the subtitle clarity.

Or, are you using some other means to "add text"?

Yeah, I'm using the Title tab.

When I add a text at the tittle room it displays the way and quality that I want but when I run the video it gets really blurry.

I tryed adding borders to the text but nothing changed.

Hi thethird -

I've found that to be something of an issue in many versions of PD.

What you see in the Title Designer screen doesn't equate to what you get back in preview or in the produced files.

You have to be VERY careful applying blurs on shadows and borders. Under-do it in Title Designer (and PiP Designer) and you'll get a result closer to what you want.

That said, PD will only make blurry text if you allow it to... or do you mean that it seems to make the video blurry???

Cheers - Tony
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I'm going to hazard a guess that you are talking about blurriness when when you play it back in the Preview window?
(If not then ignore the rest of this post.)

Have you tried changing the Preview settings to High and then playing it back?
Lower settings cause blurriness. When you Produce the video the titles will be clear.

See this link for more info- scroll down: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/29038.page

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Thanks for the quick response guys!

@Tony

No, I'm want to the text in the clip to display as neat as possible. My attempt to add border was hoping that the blurriness would affect only the border leaving a clean text to the vid, as you can imagine it failed hahaha.

@Rob

Yup.

I saw the thread from the link you posted as well. When I change the preview settings to high nothing happens, however when I rendered the vid it gets better, it's not what I expected but much better.
Is it normal not being able to click the "Fast video rendering technology" in the Produce tab?

My guess is because the video quality is really bad, dunno for sure.


Do you guys have any tips to render a video 640x480?



Thank!


Celio.

Hi again -

Ah - 640x480.

If you've added borders to the text, make sure you don't apply any blur or transparency. That will only exaggerate the problem. Keep it simple and clean.

The best way to produce 640x480 is exactly the same way. Produce to that same format as your original clips 640x480. If you try to bump it up to 720p it will just look blurrier.

If possible, keep the same format & bitrate settings too.

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Thanks Tony!

I'll try several tests and see what comes best.

Cheers mates!