• Adobe After Effects

  Minimum line width

  Posted by Jerry Smith on March 31, 2016 at 2:33 pm

  For a 1920×1080 composition that will be rendered in a bunch of different ways, what is the minimum safe size for a line? I read somewhere that 3 pixels was a good rule of thumb.

  Thanks

  John Cuevas replied 10 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Cuevas

  March 31, 2016 at 2:57 pm

  If it’s progressive, you should be able to do a pixel width of 1. Unless I have good reason, I stick to 1.5 to 2 at the low end, depending on the project. I would just make a couple of quick test animations(create lines of 1,2,3, & 4 pixels wide), compress to all your deliverable formats and determine my min based on the most compressed file.

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