best results for titles please

[dumbskate]

a few questons on titles

what is the best way to set up and save a title in photoshop. because when i do it how i think, they come out rough in prem with lots of small artifacts around the letters.i have tried adjusting the color depths(my blk is 16 and my white is 235) i even gave it a slight blur.

my other quetions is about codecs because when i play the title un rendered it appears fine but once i render it i think the codec freacks out and thats when it starts looking bad.
i am using the standard microsoft dv pal compressor

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

If you're building titles in Photoshop as slides, then it sounds as if you might be chromakeying them to achieve transparency. You might consider using an alpha channel mask, instead, which can be as crisp as you like. Here's a related tutorial that I use a lot:

http://www.petting-zoo.org/Dreamquest_Animation.html

Step 10 is where I start making the alpha channel. Experience has shown that at times it can make a crisper result to do my select-by-color, then increase my selection by one pixel.

But whatever works for you.

When you import the image into Premiere, select Video >> Transparency >> Alpha Channel >> OK.

That ought to get you working!

Cheers,


Edward

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