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Brian Lynn
I have used the same laptop for the last year and a half and I typically have
run Office XP or 2003. Recently I upgraded to PowerPoint 2007 (office 2007
Professional).
I use PowerPoint 2003 to create white text on black backgrounds for use in a
lumi-key using a Barco Folsom Screen Pro I/II or Barco Encore or other
internally key-capably video switcher.
PowerPoint 2003 would handle this pretty well. I have always been fighting
the horrible font rendering in 2003, but at least the signal as a whole is
clean.
I installed PowerPoint 2007 because I was incredibly impressed with the new
font handling capability. Finally, clean, crisp edges to fonts. The key LOVES
it.
Problem is, when animating, the PowerPoint 2007 background layer, set to
pure black, does not stay true. In a key, even with a very fine threshold
set, there is a sync roll created any time anything on a slide moves. I fade
in text and you can see it across all the areas that Should have been keyed
out.
I am back stage currently feeding an Encore. I have dual-booted my machine
to keep WinXP and Office2k3 separate from my Vista and Office2k7 install.
In XP/2k3 the key is clean beautiful except for those silly nasty font edges.
In Vista/2k7 the key is clean until something animates. The fonts are crisp,
but something new, and very nasty visually is happening.
Anyone have a similar experience?
Aside from this issue I have also noticed that using separate timings in
Vista for my laptop, i.e. using Centered timings or Stretch to Fit while
using the external VGA on the laptop also is giving noise in the system. If I
run a 100% match, say 1024x768 pixel for pixel on both video heads I get a
clean signal (until PPT animations). If I run 1024x768 stretched on laptop
LCD and 1024x768 non-stretched on the external VGA I get noise in my signal.
Again, this is not an issue I have had or have currently with my XP partition.
Nor do I have this issue in Linux, which by the way has saved my rear side
on this job with Impress.
Any help, or suggestions would be great.
I have new drivers, all the downloads I can get, and I am on a fairly clean
install. Its just Vista and Office and my Thunderbird/Firefox install....
Help! Thanks to anyone who might be able to help!
run Office XP or 2003. Recently I upgraded to PowerPoint 2007 (office 2007
Professional).
I use PowerPoint 2003 to create white text on black backgrounds for use in a
lumi-key using a Barco Folsom Screen Pro I/II or Barco Encore or other
internally key-capably video switcher.
PowerPoint 2003 would handle this pretty well. I have always been fighting
the horrible font rendering in 2003, but at least the signal as a whole is
clean.
I installed PowerPoint 2007 because I was incredibly impressed with the new
font handling capability. Finally, clean, crisp edges to fonts. The key LOVES
it.
Problem is, when animating, the PowerPoint 2007 background layer, set to
pure black, does not stay true. In a key, even with a very fine threshold
set, there is a sync roll created any time anything on a slide moves. I fade
in text and you can see it across all the areas that Should have been keyed
out.
I am back stage currently feeding an Encore. I have dual-booted my machine
to keep WinXP and Office2k3 separate from my Vista and Office2k7 install.
In XP/2k3 the key is clean beautiful except for those silly nasty font edges.
In Vista/2k7 the key is clean until something animates. The fonts are crisp,
but something new, and very nasty visually is happening.
Anyone have a similar experience?
Aside from this issue I have also noticed that using separate timings in
Vista for my laptop, i.e. using Centered timings or Stretch to Fit while
using the external VGA on the laptop also is giving noise in the system. If I
run a 100% match, say 1024x768 pixel for pixel on both video heads I get a
clean signal (until PPT animations). If I run 1024x768 stretched on laptop
LCD and 1024x768 non-stretched on the external VGA I get noise in my signal.
Again, this is not an issue I have had or have currently with my XP partition.
Nor do I have this issue in Linux, which by the way has saved my rear side
on this job with Impress.
Any help, or suggestions would be great.
I have new drivers, all the downloads I can get, and I am on a fairly clean
install. Its just Vista and Office and my Thunderbird/Firefox install....
Help! Thanks to anyone who might be able to help!
