Christopher C. Murphy
October 31st, 2003, 04:01 PM
Ok, I've been doing some playing around and this is what I have found.
I have some footage of regular NTSC DV stock footage. If I layer some text on it - it's obvious that it has jagged edges. It looked aliased (as opposed to anti-aliased). I'll export to Pixlet and play it back - it looks really smooth. Unlike when I save to the standard Quicktime codec.
Does Pixlet add something or calculate in such a way that it helps all footage? I'd like to hear from other people who have looked at this too. I'm using high quality footage on a Mac, but of course its always looked NTSC-like. However, I swear that when I export to Pixlet and playback - it looks much better - smooth and without the edging. It's similar to when I use Photoshop to add very slight Gaussien blur (after applying the NTSC color filter). It makes the image playback better on NTSC - no jumping and flickering. (I recommend this to everyone by the way - always tweak stills before displaying on television - otherwise your images look like crap.)
Any thoughts anyone??
Chris
I have some footage of regular NTSC DV stock footage. If I layer some text on it - it's obvious that it has jagged edges. It looked aliased (as opposed to anti-aliased). I'll export to Pixlet and play it back - it looks really smooth. Unlike when I save to the standard Quicktime codec.
Does Pixlet add something or calculate in such a way that it helps all footage? I'd like to hear from other people who have looked at this too. I'm using high quality footage on a Mac, but of course its always looked NTSC-like. However, I swear that when I export to Pixlet and playback - it looks much better - smooth and without the edging. It's similar to when I use Photoshop to add very slight Gaussien blur (after applying the NTSC color filter). It makes the image playback better on NTSC - no jumping and flickering. (I recommend this to everyone by the way - always tweak stills before displaying on television - otherwise your images look like crap.)
Any thoughts anyone??
Chris