Does anyone else have a problem with red text in Premiere Pro? I made a credit sequence I was very proud of and my heart is set on red text, but whenever I export a video with red text, the titles have the pixelated look you know? Like they're in some super low resolution, no matter how I encode this happens, I've even tried other shades of red, but nothing. Anyone have a problem with this?

An exported screenshot always looks great:



But here's what it looks like in my encoder window (nevermind the interlacing, that's something different):



It's when I encode that there's a problem. And only with the text, the video looks fine too, it's just the red text in titles that go super lowfi or whatever, even with uncompressed video. Help!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: teenagdcelluloid,

I don't actually see the problem in the screenshot either, but I know what you're referring to. It's an artifact of the DV compression codec. Basically DV has a 1:4 color resolution, where the color is composed of 4x4 pixel chunks, instead of varying in shade by 1 pixel at a time. This, combined with the low bit-rate of DV leads to all sorts of dreadful problems like that one.