Having difficulty with creating simple text (no effects) on plain black title page

Robynwithay

Newbie Joined: Mar 22, 2010 01:07 Messages: 6 Offline

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Mar 05, 2015 15:44

Please forgive my question. I know, it's simple.

I am using PD7.

I am creating a plain black title page for a documentary. I'm having difficulty creating simple text, with no visual effects, on the title page. I get so far as to type my text the way I like it, but then when I play it back, it appears blurry. To test things, I've clicked on and off the "apply font face" and "apply shadow" buttons, thinking that might be the problem, but I'm having no luck. I'm stuck. Please help.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Mar 05, 2015 18:41

Quote: Please forgive my question. I know, it's simple.

I am using PD7.

I am creating a plain black title page for a documentary. I'm having difficulty creating simple text, with no visual effects, on the title page. I get so far as to type my text the way I like it, but then when I play it back, it appears blurry. To test things, I've clicked on and off the "apply font face" and "apply shadow" buttons, thinking that might be the problem, but I'm having no luck. I'm stuck. Please help.

In Title Designer:
You might try removing the Borders. Borders are on the last Tab (in PD8, I do not have PD 7).

By removing the borders you get much closer to plain text.
You may want to uncheck "apply shadow".

Any 'enhancement' will make the text "fatter" and look fuzzy or blurry.
Of course a careful choice of the font face and font color makes the text stand out more.

Also the resolution of your final output file makes a difference.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Mar 05, 2015 18:47

Can you attach a picture of your screen so one can see what you see?

Basically one would:
1) Put a Black Color Board from the media library, drop down Color Boards selection into the timeline
2) In the Title Room, select "Default" title block as it has no features applied to it and drag to title track
3) Change the "Default" text to yours and most likely change color, it's a strange light purple by default

Jeff

William

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2015 16:35 Messages: 3 Offline

Jun 03, 2015 14:14

I tried that and it's invisible. I dragged the default onto track 2 above the video, then double clicked on it, changed the text clicked save, and I can't see any text.

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Jun 04, 2015 20:47

Title goes below the track that contains the color board.
Put it on the TITLE track and you should be good.

William

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2015 16:35 Messages: 3 Offline

Jun 05, 2015 10:50

Thank you but I was already doing that, turns out the problem is the program takes a minute or two to render the text, when I accidentally waited, it miraculously started working, so I hope others facing this problem see this and understand you just have to wait a little.

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Jun 05, 2015 11:54

It's nearly instantaneous here. It's possible that your system is marginal for resource intensive video editing. Check this...
http://www.cyberlink.com/support/product-faq-content.do?id=14950&prodId=4

You might also update the video driver. If problems arise, roll back via Control Panel|DEVICE MGR|VIDEO ADAPTERS||DRIVERS tab.

http://geforce.com/drivers (NVidia)

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download (AMD)

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics (Intel)

Check too that you are running the latest patch for your PD version. See the "sticky" at the top of this forum.

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