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Text looks jagged in 32 bit
I want to take advantage of the nice blurs you can get with super white text in 32 bit, but the text looks a bit jagged in 32 bit. Is this a font thing or something?
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The text looks jagged before any effects are applied. I open a new composition, use the text tool, and it’s jagged right from the start.
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I wish that was the case. The comp is square pixels. I’ve rendered a test and the text looks jagged viewing in the finder and Final Cut.
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Nope, doesn’t look good in the crt monitor either.
I can click through the 8, 16 and 32 bit settings and can see the text go from being nice and smooth on 8 and 16, then go jagged on 32.
Maybe I shouldn’t have posted this question in the Basic forum. I’ve been using AE for quite a while, just thought this might be a simple thing. I might try posting in the other forum, see if anyone else has had this problem.
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What font are you using? Does it look fine in 16 bit and 8 bit? Can you provide screenshots?
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I don’t think you can have a comp that’s 16 and one that’s 32 – it’s the project itself that is one or the other.
On your AE, do you get the same results I am? It doesn’t matter what comp size or resolution I choose – I open a comp, put down some text, make it super white (like 3,3,3 on the RGB) and it’s jagged.
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It doesn’t seem to matter what font I use. Yes, they look fine in 8 and 16. Not sure how to include screen shot.
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Yes, when I do two regular white, top one set to add, it gets jagged just like when it’s set to super white (this is in 32 bit)
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Are you using OpenGL?
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[Jerry Sneede] “On your AE, do you get the same results I am? It doesn’t matter what comp size or resolution I choose – I open a comp, put down some text, make it super white (like 3,3,3 on the RGB) and it’s jagged.”
Simple answer is don’t go above white if you’re not blurring your text.
In the same way that values above white will give you more intense blurs, they intensify the anti-aliasing sampling that is done on the edges of the text which causes the anti-aliasing to be less effective.
An alternative if you must have super white text immediately would be apply a very slight blur to it, but I would consider animating the text color from white to super white using a text animator.
Darby Edelen
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