Quote New to the forum and new to PD...so I have created a nice looking basic title (no animation/effects/shadows/outline). Just a simple title along the bottom with a clean looking font that was pre-loaded in the designer. Working in 16:9 with high quality video. When I save the title and then apply the title I created to the actual video it looks awful. The font becomes bold, pixelated, and generally like it was made by a 5th grader in 1996. I have tried rendering the preview as well and it does not help. Any ideas? Is it a settings issue? I've tried a couple fonts and the issue remains the same. Thanks ahead of time to anyone who can assist.

So I decided to "produce" the video and watch it in MPEG4 and the title appears to be clean and crisp (as originally designed)...Is this just something that is a product of the editing/preview process?

Since you said that the render preview was also bad, but the produced file was good, I suspect that you have the preview quality set low. (icon left of speaker under the preview window) Try HD or Full HD and see if that helps at all.

Jeff

Quote Since you said that the render preview was also bad, but the produced file was good, I suspect that you have the preview quality set low. (icon left of speaker under the preview window) Try HD or Full HD and see if that helps at all.

Jeff

Thanks so much for the reply. I also thought that could be the culprit, but I double checked and the preview is indeed set to Full HD. Now that I know the finished product is clean I'm less concerned, though it seems odd that rendering the preview is not a solution.

Out of curiosity, did PD create a Shadow file for your project? I know that Shadow files are supposed to be for media clips only. But I wonder if, once a shadow file is in use, PD drops down to a cached playback file? (Kinda like Resolve's cached Playback option?)

Did the title look as crummy when you toggled between Clip and Movie in the Monitor window?

Since I'm new to PD, I'm confused about the part where you "saved" the title and then applied it to your project.

Is the title a stand alone project?

What happens if you create only your title as a project? How does it look then in the Monitor?

If still crummy, then perhaps you could upload the title project somewhere and we could report what it looks like on our systems. I wonder if PD automatically changes the preview resolution to match your display hardware?

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Quote New to the forum and new to PD...so I have created a nice looking basic title (no animation/effects/shadows/outline). Just a simple title along the bottom with a clean looking font that was pre-loaded in the designer. Working in 16:9 with high quality video. When I save the title and then apply the title I created to the actual video it looks awful. The font becomes bold, pixelated, and generally like it was made by a 5th grader in 1996. I have tried rendering the preview as well and it does not help. Any ideas? Is it a settings issue? I've tried a couple fonts and the issue remains the same. Thanks ahead of time to anyone who can assist.

So I decided to "produce" the video and watch it in MPEG4 and the title appears to be clean and crisp (as originally designed)...Is this just something that is a product of the editing/preview process?[/quotePost]



Validus:

I posted a thread a week or so ago with a similar problem you encountered except I was creating vector files (in this case maps) in Powerpoint, exporting them as MP4's and importing them into the Media Room. As in your case, everything worked fine until I imported them into the timeline and preview them using my secondary monitor. After reading your post about going ahead and "Producing" the timeline which revealed that the distortion was more of an anomaly than an actual display problem, I decided to do the same thing. And just like your experience, after looking at the produced version of the timeline, it played back perfectly. BTW, I checked all of my preview settings and they were set to Full HD so that evidently is not the problem.

Regards,

TeeMan

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TeeMan

This answered my question