• Adobe After Effects

  How to make 1px lines?

  Posted by Milton Hockman on February 17, 2009 at 3:49 am

  i see on tv 1px line effects all over.

  They use it a lot to make things look interactive.

  How do i make such small lines with out it flickering cause of interlacing?

  Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
  Software expertise include: After Effects, Avid Xpress Pro, Final Cut Pro, Dvd Studio Pro, Photoshop, and more.

  Milton Hockman replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  February 17, 2009 at 4:30 am

  If you must use thin horizontal lines, you should blur them just a tiny bit. It’s better to soften the graphic element a little bit than to have it flicker like mad.

  Usually people are careful to use graphic elements with horizontal lines no thinner than a few pixels (in this case, scan lines).

  But the only way to be 100% sure that your graphics aren’t going to suffer from twitter is to preview them on an interlaced video monitor.

  There are some tips in the “Best practices for creating text and vector graphics for video” section of After Effects Help.

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  Milton Hockman

  February 17, 2009 at 3:50 pm

  i see thin lines on MSNBC all the time and want to do it.

  Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
  Software expertise include: After Effects, Avid Xpress Pro, Final Cut Pro, Dvd Studio Pro, Photoshop, and more.

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