AE Text Edges Pixelated

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AE Text Edges Pixelated

Posted by Mike Jameron on January 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Hey all,

I am hoping someone can give me some advice. I am using After Effects CS3 and have noticed the edges on all my text is pixelated (jagged) It’s just all the edges and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. It’s on all fonts and the continously rasterize is on, though I dont think you can turn it off for text anyways. Also, I should note it’s not only the text, shapes, when rotated (not when perfectly straight) are pixelated, as well as edges on other files I bring in are sometimes pixelated/ jagged as well. I am not completely new to after efftects so I do know a bit. This happens in all comp settigs including .9, 1.2 and square PAR. And the resolution is full at 100% in the viewer. This problem is both in the viewer and when I render.

Any advice or insight is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

David Bogie replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

George Froid
January 21, 2009 at 10:42 am

maybe turn of OpenGL in ‘preferences’ > ‘previews’?
see if that helps…
David Bogie
January 21, 2009 at 9:09 pm

we’ve seen similar topics recently here and on the adobe.com AE forum. I don’t see any conclusive solutions and, much worse, it’s not universal. I thought it was a bug. It’s not. It’s you. And it’s me.

bogiesan
Mike Jameron
January 21, 2009 at 9:12 pm

That’s not good to hear. I wonder what I can do to remedy this. Is it a computer issues or a software issue? Have you tried the program on another computer?
David Bogie
January 21, 2009 at 9:15 pm

There are slight processing differences depending on if you use Text Layers or Text Effects and if you precompose and then apply subsidiary filters. I’ve done all the debugging I can do, results are inconclusive and might even be related to certain fonts.

The bottom line is it’s not a bug so you will be experimenting on your own to defeat it.

bogiesan
David Bogie
January 21, 2009 at 9:20 pm

https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b79108

Thomas Craul – 7:02pm Jan 20, 09 PST (#2 of 3)
activated PAR toggle causes jagged edges, as it does in Photoshop.
nobody knows why, except for the software engineer.
check it.

Aaron Cobb – 9:28am Jan 21, 09 PST (#3 of 3) Edited: 21-Jan-2009 at 09:29am
I can tell you why, Thomas: the default quality of PAR Correction simply drops or adds columns of pixels rather than blending or interpolating. There is a solution, though, and that is to use Lloyd Alvarez’s excellent Throttle script to set the super-secret PAR Correction Quality preference.

https://aescripts.com/throttle-12/

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