Setup and Rendering Options

Before rendering a text clip and rendering text effects, you must set the blur settings, text animation, softness, and scan format.

Set text rendering options in the Text Node Prefs menu. To access the Node Prefs menu, click Node Prefs. The Node Prefs controls are described as follows.

Software anti-aliasing values can range from 1 to 64. A higher value increases the sampling rate, but also increases processing time. An anti-aliasing of 1 means no anti-aliasing is performed and the result is a hard edge.

Softness box

Defines the softness of the anti-aliasing samples.

Blur box

Sets Gaussian Blur or Box Blur. Gaussian Blur uses subpixel resolution and creates a subtle effect with the Blur Shadow attribute. Gaussian has rounded, smoother edges and is better for animation; however, processing time is increased.

Box Blur has rectangular, rougher edges, but is more economical with rendering time, especially if you are working on a rough draft.