Jesuit Curia Streams with Blackmagic Design Workflow September 2, 2021 It’s a tricky world now - you gotta make the whole picture “safe”, but still be “within safe”. Some DLP projectors can be set to show every pixel, but is rare and not to be counted on. Your layout may look great on a computer monitor, but then you’ll go to screen for an audience and shed tears when all your text is cut off at the sides and bottom. In fact, broadcast quality checks will reject video masters if text goes outside of title safe.
Don’t forget title safe area! AE has a safe area guide box - all video applications do - the outer box is picture safe, which is the total area that will be visible on most televisions, SD or HD the inner box is title safe, you don’t want to go beyond this. Hope there are some useful ideas in there. Even softening things very slightly can do wonders for a good steady clear result, and for getting rid of artifacts such as crawl or moire. For that matter, in both HD and SD, people think sharpness is the key, but really its smoothness. Interlacing as well as the just low resolution of SD demands sufficient smoothness. But if you are in standard def, then best to go very conservative. So go for the font style you want then “pull back” by choosing the more conservative of options - ie, fewer curlies, smoother details, etc. They look best in print or on a computer screen, but really jaggy and messy when projected or on a video screen. If you want fancier font styles - especially fonts that have custom “textures” or “roughness”, I find these fancy fonts can fool you. Yes, indeed, the big “white” bar on NTSC color bars is actually only 75%! 75% looks slightly gray on a computer screen, but quite pleasing (not blaring) on a video or film screen, when it is the dominant color.īack to styles. If white is to be seen over a large area, like a white background instead of a black background, or a large dominent shape is white, then bring it all the way down to around 75%.
Same with any color, don’t let it’s brightness reach a full 100% - bring it down to between 90-95%. Use an almost white, around 90% (or 95% if you want really white) white. Don’t let your white letters be totally white!! They can do weird things (like vibrate, and on TVs can even cause an audible buzz).
Set your working color space to HDTV (709, found in “Project Settings”, which is also a good profile for projected film). If your work is going to be final output and not color corrected by anybody, then you should observe a few rules. It actually looks quite fine in my experience, and you can still work up plenty of exciting designs around simple fonts. Well, if you want to be totally conservative, simply go with, say, Arial, Arial Black or Arial Narrow.