pixielex

Is there any way to make text look good in Jitter, especially if it is being moved or resized? I have tried the gl 3d text, I have tried jit.lcd, and I have tried using flash movies in jit.qt.movie, but no matter what I do, the text is relatively ugly and pixelated, particularly if I am animating or resizing the text. I've tried anti-aliasing, interpolating, you name it, and nothing makes it look really good.

I am seriously considering hard-editing all of my video and text in AfterEffects just so that my text won't look ugly, but I need the dynamic capablities of Jitter amd Max. Any help or advice owuld be greatly appreciated.

help-with-text-please

One thing I ran into once that took me quite some time to find out: at what resolution is your jit.qt.movie outputting? This is defined by the jit.qt.movie dim attribute which is different from the moviedim attribute. This means the output resolution is not automatically adapted to your movie's resolution. jit.qt.movie will resize your movie and this can be pretty ugly.

Well, I figured it out, but it's not ideal. Basically, it seems that text in jit.lcd needs to be sent into a matrix at full size, so if I want my jit.window fullscreen, I need to be sending all my text as well as my videos that I am compositing with the text into 1024x768 matrices, which slows down my framerate considerably. However, if the jit.lcd matrix is any smaller and then gets bumped to fullscreen, the text is super jagged and pixelated.

Help with text please!