Red in Video
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- nosaj
Any tricks to using Red type on a dark background in video production? Seems to blur/ bleed much more then any other colour.
- slappy0
I have never been able to get rid of dot-crawl artifacts when using red text on a dark backround unless the back ground is a dark red/brown or something on a similar side of the colour wheel.
are you viewing the output on a video monitor rather than your computer screen?
- nosaj0
Thanks slappy, On computer screen it isn't so bad, but when viewed on television it bleeds like hell.
Any suggestions?
- chossy0
this could be down to many many factors, you may have a shite monitor etc. etc. I just did a wee test in my avid and she works very well indeed on black however this may be due to my having broadcast monitors.
Just double check all your settings and if they are fully tip top quality you should have little or no problems when it comes to final output.
Whats the situation is the text animating or static?.
- indian_pole0
i always thought you weren't supposed to use red on a high contrast colour as it bleeds, and will certainly bleed on a standard tv monitor (if that's what you're designing for).
i may be wrong tho.
- chossy0
I just animated it and she works perfectly, perhaps your settings are at fault give me a we seond and I'll output it form my suite onto a shite monitor and see whit happens but I'm pretty sure it'll be fine I do loads of red stuff for tennets and it's always fine, scrolling text on a line of black is a very common request.
- vespa0
the red you're using might be too hot for broadcast, try bringing the levels back. usually red on black is better than red on white tho.
- chossy0
aight, I just output it onto my shittest monitor here, and it works rather well, next to no bleed. animated from left to righ full distance of screen over two seconds. impact font 100 points the word was test unsurprisingly.
Try vespa's advice aswell I concker with her concour cancker...... agree with her.
- nosaj0
Thanks for the help. We're going to try playing with the levels now.
Wish we didn't have to use such a bright red but it's the corporate colour for one of the companies involved....