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From: kaye@FSCORE.dec.com (Mark Kaye - He who dies with the most toys - is dead!)
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Subject: Re: Color Bleeding in Video Titles
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Date: 1 Nov 89 15:28:25 GMT
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>In article <735@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) writes:
>>
>>I am doing some video titling work and I am having a few problems.
>>	PROBLEM #2: I created a variety of title pages, changing font style,
>>		    color, and size. For white letters on black background,
>>		    the result is okay. BUT, for red letters on a black
>>		    background, I get SEVERE bleeding of the colors.

RED, is the most difficult colour for your home VCR to produce. The
bleeding will also depend on the background colour too. To get good
titles is a good bit of trial & error. You have to record a few and
then view them to see how they look on playback. As the other response
pointed out make sure you keep the RGB values below 12.
All of the consumer formats suffer from the colour bleeding, with VHS
being the most susceptable. Good cables will help a bit (a good bit if
the current cables are poor). Make sure you use the fastest recording
speed (SP). Remember, that most 2-head VHS VCR's are optimized for the
slow speed and have narrow heads, and switching to SP doesn't really
show any real improvement. Make sure the heads are clean, even the
tiniest bit of grunge will degrade the signal.
> 
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