Chad Warner Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Not sure if this is the appropriate place, but it was closest to what I need. I was wondering if someone had any tips or links to tips/guidelines for using text in video productions. Whenever I try to use text, it ends up looking really bad, hard to read, etc. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 How are you using your text? I normally type something up in Photoshop, rasterizie the image making it 720x480 300dpi. I use priemere, and as long as the text dpi is over 250 it reads fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 i know there are guidelines to follow if your final target is tv, as far as what point to use for readablility. sorry, don't remember what they are, but i remember they seemed kind of large when viewing them on a computer monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Bugga- I am just creating the text in illustrator and importing the file into after effects, so everything stays vector based. I am just wondering about sizes, formats etc. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 basics for video display on standard tube tv's.... Television-safe fonts, size, and style Thin serif fonts such as Times do not work well for television screens. These are examples of fonts that do work well: Arial, Helvetica, Palatino, MS Sans Serif, Lucida Sans Minimum font size for legible body text is 18 points, 24-32 points is optimal Television-safe colors Avoid highly saturated colors: set the color saturation level to 200 and the luminance level to 100 (Font Color/More Colors) Off-white and mild yellow work well Backgrounds Dark blue works best The background must be low contrast so the font will show up If a watermark graphic is used it should be transparent or embossed in a solid background so that it does not interfere with the text Safe-Title Area The safe-title area of a television screen is the area where views can see all the most important information you need to show them. All text should be inset 1" from all edges of the screen . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 chad, Very, odd. Vector base would be the highest quality.. What what format do you output (QT, MPEG etc.) , and what software do you use to put together your animations? Does your text move, or stay still. If you are using after effects and you have moving text, you have to increase super sampling (or somthing in that nature) - I don't know after effects, but I have seen that topic being discussed before in another website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Outputting to Mpeg for DVD. Use After effects, premiere and adobe encore for dvd burning. The text looks good on the computer screen, its just that it looks kind of bad once burned to DVD. What I was looking for was the text size and format like CHG posted, I just wasn't sure if there was an optimal size for text on the screen. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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