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- Real Name: James Carson
Mon May 10, 2021 2:46 pm
I have a 4K timeline that's finishing in 4K, with a lot of material that's really 3k (shot at 4K and thus "actually" closer to 3.2K). Which means that on a 4K timeline the clips are slightly softer than 4K—which still looks great, except when adding computer generated text, when the razor sharpness of the text at 4K results suddenly makes the image look very soft in comparison.
The obvious answer is to slightly blur the text. There's no issue doing this for the motion graphics / lower thirds. I made a compound clip of all motion graphics, then applied the blur on the color page to the compound clip.
The question is, how to do this to the subtitles without having to make them as individual text elements. I've tried including the subtitles in the compound clip, but they are not handled the same in the composite settings in the inspector in edit mode. "Foreground" works for motion graphics but blacks out the entire screen except text for the subtitles. I've also tried creating the compound clip from within the master timeline, which then doesn't allow the creation of a subtitle track (I've even tried copy and pasting the subtitles into a nested track, which.... works??? it's a bug where the subtitle track will be created but then basically does nothing in the master timeline.)
I'm at a loss as to there being any other solution to achieve this, but I'd love if there was a simple workaround.
Thanks!
The obvious answer is to slightly blur the text. There's no issue doing this for the motion graphics / lower thirds. I made a compound clip of all motion graphics, then applied the blur on the color page to the compound clip.
The question is, how to do this to the subtitles without having to make them as individual text elements. I've tried including the subtitles in the compound clip, but they are not handled the same in the composite settings in the inspector in edit mode. "Foreground" works for motion graphics but blacks out the entire screen except text for the subtitles. I've also tried creating the compound clip from within the master timeline, which then doesn't allow the creation of a subtitle track (I've even tried copy and pasting the subtitles into a nested track, which.... works??? it's a bug where the subtitle track will be created but then basically does nothing in the master timeline.)
I'm at a loss as to there being any other solution to achieve this, but I'd love if there was a simple workaround.
Thanks!