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1:2:1 Deflickerring
Applies a vertical blur before rendering to help eliminate flickering in text
rolls and reduces jagged edges on moving graphics with hard edges.
• Select if you are rendering an effect containing text moving vertically,
(for example, a credit roll) or a moving graphic with hard edges (for
example, a PICT image). Leave deselected for any other type of effect.
• If your effect contains some static elements in addition to vertically
moving text or graphics, deselect 1:2:1 Deflickering to preserve the
sharpness of the static elements.
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If necessary, you can manually blur the text or graphics by applying
a Gaussian Blur filter to the affected tracks. Set
Horizontal Blur
Level
to 0 and adjust Vertical Blur Level as necessary.
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Only apply 1:2:1 Deflickering once—leave this option deselected if
you select 1:2:1 Deflicker in the Render tab of a title container, and
vice-versa. Otherwise, the effect may blur.
Generate Safe
Levels
Enables an NTSC/PAL level-safe filter that allows only levels that are safe
for broadcast. For example, Avid FX filters allow RGB values across the
full 0-255 range. When Generate Safe Levels is selected, the RGB values
are limited to the NTSC/PAL safe range of 16-235.
Better Quality Field
Rendering
Use when rendering text rolls, crawls, or any animation that uses computer-
generated text or graphics, including compositing images using hard alpha
edges (for example, keying text or video over video).
• When selected (the default), Avid FX optimizes the rendering for
quality, ensuring that graphics or text animate smoothly. Takes more
time to render, but will generally correct any problems with jitter or
rough edges on effects.
• When not selected, Avid FX optimizes the rendering for speed,
appropriate if you are creating effects such as color treatments or blurs
that do not include hard alpha edges. Turning off this option renders
almost twice as fast with no apparent image quality difference, and is
also suitable for processing images for web or graphics applications.
Hold Parameter
Values
Changes the behavior of the first and last keyframes in your effect. You can
also choose this option by clicking the
Hold Parameter Values button in
the timeline. When deselected, if you do not explicitly set a value at the first
or last keyframe, the keyframe uses the default parameter value. When
selected, the first keyframe holds at the value set in the next keyframe. The
parameter value for the last keyframe holds at the value set in the next to
last keyframe.
Hold Parameter Value is most useful when you composite rather than
animate effects.
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