Overlaying (Interlace?) problem (probably easy to answer)

kearlywi · Post by **kearlywi** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 8:25 am

Ok. I've seen a lot of people make subtitles for fansubs or overlay images from photoshop into their amv's/anime. Doing this seems easy enough. I made a new image in Photoshop, set the background to a single color (usually perfect black) and then Implanted my text/image on top of it. What I got was my text/image completely surrounded by black. I saved as .psd and imported the new file into premiere. I set it in the track above my video, then went to video options/Transparency and used RGB difference matte.

Success! Sort of. My text has funny lines around its edges (they look suspiciously like interlace lines) even though the text is not moving, and should not have Interlace lines. Images that are imported tend to also look a little rough around the edges. At this point I think it has to do with the black background effecting pixels in my image/subtitles, but thats just my current guess. If anyone can tell me what I need to do to fix this, or propose a different method for importing images/subtitles, then please let me know.

And no, Virtual dubs deinterlacers do not fix it.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:20 am

If all you're doing is making subtitles or putting simple text on the screen, wouldn't it be easier and less hassle to just use Premiere's own titler? 6.5 has a rather advanced title creation tool, but even the lower versions have decent ones. Go to File->New->Title.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:42 am

Ashyukun wrote:If all you're doing is making subtitles or putting simple text on the screen, wouldn't it be easier and less hassle to just use Premiere's own titler? 6.5 has a rather advanced title creation tool, but even the lower versions have decent ones. Go to File->New->Title.

As far as I can tell, 5.1's has no way to make subtitles with borders instead of drop shadows that only go in one direction. But if someone could prove me wrong, it would be VERY much appreciated.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:14 pm

Scintilla wrote:As far as I can tell, 5.1's has no way to make subtitles with borders instead of drop shadows that only go in one direction. But if someone could prove me wrong, it would be VERY much appreciated.

I can't- I only have 6.5, and possibly an old copy of 6.0. I never tried it when I was back at school using 5.1 (or was it 4.something...), we were only using it for title cards for the vids, so the normal shadow worked just fine...

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:15 pm

Sorry for the double post...

But if your version of Premiere can't do what you want, you might want to try making a file with and alpha layer (transparent) background instead of the black background, and then using the alpha transparency in Premiere instead of RGB difference. Might behave a bit better.

godix · Post by **godix** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:14 pm

Make the text on an alpha layer as already suggested, it's much easier. If you want do continue to do it the way you are I'd suggest playing with the similarity setting to make it a little smoother

kearlywi · Post by **kearlywi** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:55 pm

The Title option creates clean looking text. That takes care of that. As far as Images I'll try those things too.

Thanks.