"Titles" in MEP 2014 Plus look low resolution in editing Monitor

PsychotropicFilms wrote on 2/19/2014, 11:28 AM

All of a sudden my titles look horrible in the edting monitor, like very low resoution. Did the program default back to some "Draft" setting? However, if you do a timeline 'render' of just the title, it looks fine (high quality).

I know in Sony Vegas you can adjust the quality of the video monitor in the program to prevent jittery playback for large HD files. So I was looking for some type of menu selection in the MEP 2014 to adjust the quality setting, but no luck.

I tried rebooting the computer in case something got corrupted - No go.

Let me know if anyone has had this issue.

Thanks, Bart

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terrypin wrote on 2/20/2014, 1:39 AM

Hi,

Is the blurring only on titles? Anything looks unusual (different to your normal settings) in the Title Editor dialog, particularly under Advanced? Usual font at usual size? No extreme zooming under Size/Position?

How about the more general monitor settings?

Or for better quality: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP-BlurryPreview.jpg

Presumably you tried File > Settings > Reset program settings to default... ?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Scenestealer wrote on 2/20/2014, 4:34 PM

As Terry has asked - is it just the titles that are low res or everything in the preview monitor?

There used to be a setting for reducing the preview resolution in Program settings, but in 2014 this is controlled automatically depending on the capability (power) of your computer to show the preview in realtime. It is activated by the little Lightning bolt icon that is to the left of the jog wheel below the monitor. Blue, as in Terry's screenshot means activated and if you click on it you can control separate parameters including reduced playback frame rate, etc..

The settings Terry is showing reduce the size (and subsequent res.) of the monitor but this is more to do with adjusting your work space.

The "Movie Settings" in the File menu will influence Title resolution also - so you may have HD material in the timeline but the titles will reflect the "movie settings" resolution if that is set to say SD resolution.

PsychotropicFilms wrote on 2/21/2014, 10:28 AM

Hi Terry and ss:

Thanks for your response, but I now think that it's not a "setting" in the program.

I think something is corrupted in the project file. It's just the 'title' function that looks almost unreadable in the monitor, the rest of the movie is fine. Here's the situation: I have three short movies in one project file (each has their own tab). The tiles in the first movie are normal resolution, but the titles in movies 2 & 3 are unreadable. When I burned a DVD, the titles didn't show up in the finished DVD. This is in MEP 2014. So here's what I did. I opened the sme project in Video Pro X6 (the new version). And I got the same problem with the titles in movies 2 & 3. So what I ended up doing because of time, is started a new clean project in Video Pro X6 made the titles and exported (rendered) them as a Magix MXV file. Then launched MEP 2014, open the project file containing the movies which had the titling problem and imported the MXV files containing the 'rendered' files - to replace the corrupted text. Thus, the "titler" was no longer involved in the movie project and the burned DVD is done.

The only thing left to do is isolate whether the problem was with a bug in the software, or a corrupted project file. What I'm going to do is start with a clean project and see if the program's "titler" correctly functions, then add additional movies (in new tabs) to see it the "titler' functions properly in those movies.

Thanks for your input. Bart

Phoenix, AZ