• Adobe After Effects

  image softness on Y position

  Posted by Dave Fleming on March 16, 2006 at 2:48 pm

  I have a keyed image of a talking head. The person appears at various places, composited into a cell phone, laptop monitor, etc.

  There is a very maddening problem when manipulating the image–if I leave the image at 100% scale, I can move it along the X axis, no problem. However, if I move it so much as 1 pixel on the Y axis, the rendered image gets noticeably softer when imported into my Avid.

  I have other scenes where the talking head has been scaled down, turned on a Y rotation, etc., again no problem with the resolution. Help!

  Dave

  Dave Fleming replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 16, 2006 at 4:35 pm

  Must be interlaced footage. If you move intlaced footage up or down an odd number of pixels, you’ll just get AE’s interpolated pixels, which will be softer.

  Dan
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  Dave Fleming

  March 17, 2006 at 9:55 pm

  I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter whether I move the image 1, 2, 20 or 35 pixels. It’s not an even/odd issue. It’s like there’s a quality switch I’m missing or something.

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