Download for Windows Download for Linux Download for FreeBSD Download for Mac Manual Wiki Forum IRC Trac

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Don't use \fad on fades to black

By Rodrigo Monteiro at 01:01

Dear typesetters,

I have seen this countless times. Every time, it has bothered me. Please, don't do it anymore.

When the screen fades to black (or white, or any other solid colour, for that matter), DON'T use the \fad tag to fade the text along with it. When you use \fad, you're making the text translucent, and not darker. The result is that it will blend with the background - including all the usual associated bugs if you have borders and shadows - and get somewhat darker because the background itself is getting darker - it just won't get as dark as it SHOULD be, and the visual effect is that the text is getting brighter, relative to the background.




Original
With \fad
With \t(\c)


As you can see above, the CORRECT way to deal with this is by using \t to animate the colour (all relevant ones) to black (or whichever colour the screen is fading to). Also note that the background can be seen through the text in the \fad() case, which is not the correct behavior.

Keep in mind, though, \t(\c) is significantly slower than \fad() on VSFilter, so you might have softsub issues, depending on how complex is your text.

Related Posts by Categories



Labels: , , , ,

41 comments:

  1. Of course the same also applies to fading to white or any other solid colour screen... but it can't be applied to cross-fades where you'll have to do with looking a bit ugly.

    ReplyDelete

  2. okay since this post i've since more than one person not willing to use colour fades because of this post so i'd like to point out that it is perfectly fine to use for softsubbing and anything above a p3 should play it just fine

    ReplyDelete

  3. Oh, but I love abusing \fad.

    ReplyDelete

  4. Huh...I actually prefer the look with \fad over the one with \t. :/

    ReplyDelete

  5. What to look out for in the example pictures is the lightness of the white fill in the text, compared to the lightness of the bright background.
    Those are clearly different on the two pictures, and the lightness of the text matches the lightness of the background much better on the \t(\c) one than on the \fad one. (Compare to the sample before the fade, the fill of the text and the background are about the same lightness.)

    ReplyDelete

  15. He was not alone. “By 1860 there were 600 watchmakers and more than 40 families in Fleurier making watches for the Chinese,” said Michel Parmigiani, the founder Longchamp Bag and owner of the watch company Parmigiani Fleurier. “The town had the largest concentration of millionaires in Switzerland.”By the 1970s, things had changed. The arrival of the quartz watch was so catastrophic that local people still refer Michael Kors Handbags to it simply as The Crisis. Factories closed, residents moved, businesses shuttered.“People laughed at me back then when I said I wanted to be a watchmaker,” said Benoît Conrath, now 53 and working at Parmigiani. “Back then, Coach Outlet to be a watchmaker was to be unemployed. No one wanted mechanical watches. It was like using a horse and cart to travel.”It was Mr. Parmigiani who came to the rescue. He had grown up in a Coach Handbags neighboring village, graduated from Fleurier’s watch school and had his own workshop specializing in restoration. (He briefly owned Bovet, in 1989-1990.) Then in 1996, bucking the quartz trend, he decided to make his own watches, and to Coach Purses do so in Fleurier.Parmigiani Fleurier was established with headquarters in a mansion formerly owned by the Vaucher family. Vaucher, which now makes watch components, began making parts for the new company. That same year, Mr. Parmigiani persuaded Michael Kors Chopard to base its watchmaking in Fleurier. The town’s revival had begun.“People would stop him on the street and thank him,” recalled Mr. Parmigiani’s daughter, Anne-Laure.Then, Mr. Conrath said, a backlash began against quartz watches. “In the Coach Outlet Store 1990s people realized that a watch was not just an instant instrument, but a luxury product,” he said. “German and Italian journalists realized how beautiful a mechanical watch is and started writing about them.“They saved the watchmaking coach factory store industry in Switzerland,” Mr. Conrath continued. “The watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which was in danger of closing, is now turning away students.”In addition to scores of independent specialists, working on their own or under contract to Michael Kors Outlet the larger local companies, Fleurier also has its own watchmaking quality control center. It was founded in 2004 by the four local companies to establish standards and to certify watch quality, and it operates in Bovet’s former michael kors outlet clearance

    ReplyDelete


  18. This is one of the cult game now, a lot of people enjoy playing them . Also you can refer to the game :
    animal jam 2 | five nights at freddys 2 | hotmail login

    ReplyDelete

  21. Thank you for sharing! The problem seems simple, but through your pen, it impresses me!

    ReplyDelete

  22. Good post. It is really help to us. It’s give us lots of interest and pleasure. Its opportunity is so fantastic and working style so speedy. It’s really a good article. It gives me lots of pleasure and interest. Thanks for sharing this information. I really like your blog post very much. click here

    ReplyDelete

  24. She lives with her husband and three children in Georgia. ano8.ru Advice on frying the perfect egg, be it sunny side up or over easy.

    ReplyDelete

  27. We think youre going to love the fact that it is both easier to read and navigate. downlodable ebooks Keep a record of this, so that later you can enter the master password if needed, and your password will be reset.

    ReplyDelete

  29. Thanks for your post! I believe there are many who feel the same satisfaction as I read this article! I hope you will continue to have such articles to share with everyone!
    happy wheels

    ReplyDelete

  30. Thanks for the informations you shared!! I hope you will continue to have similar posts to share with everyone! I believe a lot of people will be surprised to read this article!
    abcya

    ReplyDelete

  31. The Nitrocom vendor portfolio is a strong and carefully selected collection of the world’s leading wireless, cloud & security innovators. Each vendor is individually outstanding whilst also able to work together to create a simple, yet sophisticated solution.
    SIAE MICROELETTRONICA was founded in 1952. Now we are internationally renowned as a leading provider of the most innovative and best performing microwave radio and wireless network solutions. Our equipment enables millions of people in over 90 countries to communicate around the world every day. As an intrinsic element of modern network infrastructure, our customers demand the highest quality, value for money and innovative telecommunications products.
    Cambium Networks offers a comprehensive portfolio of fixed reliable, scalable & high-speed wireless backhaul and access solutions.
    Ceragon Networks is a worldwide provider of high-capacity LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions. The company has a broad portfolio of innovative, field-proven technology solutions for wireless service providers as well as private businesses. The Ceragon solutions are designed to deliver voice and premium data services, eliminate the backhaul capacity network as well as significantly reducing the costs and transition to next-generation IP-based networks.

    ReplyDelete

  32. DragonWave is a leading provider of high-capacity packet microwave solutions that drive next-generation IP networks. DragonWave's carrier-grade point-to-point packet microwave systems transmit broadband voice, video and data, enabling service providers, government agencies, enterprises and other organizations to meet their increasing bandwidth requirements rapidly and affordably. The principal application of DragonWave's portfolio is wireless network backhaul, including a range of products ideally suited to support the emergence of underlying small cell networks. Additional solutions include leased line replacement, last mile fiber extension and enterprise networks. DragonWave's award winning products are known in the industry for their leading capacity, reliability, and spectral efficiency.
    3Roam provides high-capacity microwave transmission equipments for wireless and packet networks convergence. 3Roam solutions aim at bridging the gap between traditional microwave transmission technologies and advanced networking techniques.
    Micran is a modern innovative enterprise with a strong team of specialists, combining experience in the different spheres of microwave electronics, communications, radio location, test and measurement equipment and information security. This unique, talented, multi-disciplinary team is viewed very positively by our current customers and partners. They are always ready to bring their wide expertise to accept new challenges.
    Nitrowave WNMS is a Enterprise and Carrier-Grade Wireless Network Management System. A single software solution simplifies a large number of management and monitoring tasks for network administrators. Nitrowave ’s comprehensive network management system supports several thousands of nodes. Multiple networks may be maintained and monitored using one server. A rich feature set helps to diagnose network problems effectively, visualize networks on a map, perform scheduled firmware upgrades automatically, track states of devices, get failure alerts, and collect statistics. The Web-based system environment supports multi-user accounts. Several administrators may manage different networks on the same server, without having access to each other’s equipment.

    ReplyDelete

  33. RACOM is a primary producer, i.e. we do our own research & development of both Hardware and Software for all our product lines: Radio modem, GPRS/EDGE/UMTS router and Microwave link. Whenever the need arises, one can always find the responsible person for the respective part of a product at RACOM.
    Services:


    Pre-sales Support
    With our help you can trust that you are getting the right product to fulfil your customers requirement. We can help guide and support you with all pre-sales questions and design needs.
    Planning and Design
    Correctly planning and designing you wireless network is imperative to ensure you get the speed, services and value for money. Using our premium services we can assist you with planning and designing your wireless network.
    Installation and Aftercare

    ReplyDelete

  34. Installation and Aftercare
    Take the stress out of technical projects, have us set up your solution and deliver it to your customers door, ready to plug in. We offer pre-staging, consultancy, product support & troubleshooting and RMAs.
    Marketing Plus
    As a value-added distributor, Purdicom offers a range of marketing support to its partners including templates, event assistance and telesales resource. These templates include HTML emails, PDFs, infographics and technology guides across each of the vendors that Purdicom distributes.



    Visit some important pages from the perspective of customers :



    telecom | wireless solutions | harmony radio lite | huawei microwave | sm sale | Spectronite | ray | point to point microwave link

    ReplyDelete

  35. Offers practice discriminating speech sounds from other auditory sounds. downlodable apps Your 5 star reviews motivate us to keep creating more content!

    ReplyDelete

  36. Step through at your own pace, see exactly what is going on. download software Questerium: Sinister Trinity, Collector's Edition HD for iPad.

    ReplyDelete

  37. I really like this, I just found out about this. Will be recommending you and your articles to writing friends.Thank you for your generosity. This was an incredibly wonderful article. Thanks for providing these details.

    ReplyDelete

  38. I've never liked Astroid clones very much but thisone is fun and addictive. downlodable ebooks By using Math School regularly for only few minutes a day, you will experience the progress yourself: you will be able to think more clearly.

    ReplyDelete

  39. Selbstverstndlich ist die App GRATIS!Lade dir jetzt die Seaside Clubbers App UMSONST herunter. download driver If you are sure that you remember the word, hit the "Know" button, if not you hit "Dont Know".

    ReplyDelete

  41. When receive a pushed message from Facebook, it doesn't display the name correctly (known bug). downlodable apps As it is now, undoing mistakes requires an unintuitive series of taps.

    ReplyDelete

If you need help with Aegisub or have a bug report please use our forum instead of leaving a comment here. If you have a feature request, please go to our UserVoice page.

You will get better help on our forum than in the blog comments.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)