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Image in AE viewport looks better than final rendering.
Hello,
I have sort of an anti aliasing problem, I guess. I have inserted a graphic made by another artist into my UHD comp. It contains basically newspaper articles, lots of letters. The resolution of the graphic is ok, I would say. No jagged edges and it looks ok and smooth in AE comp view. But when I render a ProRes 422 hq file it looks all jagged and rough. (See pictures)
Quality settings is set to best, full resolution…I don’t know what is going wrong. (I tried other export formats, even lossless)
Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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Hi Tyler, the upload here on the cow made it kind of blurry, hard to tell.
But where does it look jagged, in a media player ?
Does it look equally bad when you import the footage back into After Effects, a difference between different apps could be the case if you’re on a hiDPI screen.You could overlay your rendered image on top of the comp with difference blend mod and see what’s going on.
If it was hard contrast between different colors it would be due to the 422 chroma subsampling, but here it’s clearly contrast in the Luma channels only…
You’re positive it was 422 HQ and not a proxy/LT version ?
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Additionally, what graphic format is the image in? Ive run into anti aliasing problems using vector based formats like pdf or illustrator objects containing rasterized pictures
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Can’t really trust AE as far as the “what you see is what you get” mantra.
There are few things to consider here.
Do you have raster on? Any 3D Camera in the mix?
Check for EPS, PDF quality in PSD/AI.
Lots to check since its an imported graphic.
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Make a new comp and try rendering from that comp, just that one item and see how it is?
sometimes things happen….
you are using an HD comp and it looks good before render. I have had that happen too.
what is UHD – user HD?and Eric, what are you suggesting…if he does have eps, pdf, psd/ai, what are you all suggesting if it is one of those? to open it in PSD, then make sure looks took there? then he will be safe? What do you think?
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