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Animating Thin Diagonal Lines
Ok, I am working on a video which shows a project being constructed in China. The scaffolding used is unlike that used in this country; it is really just a lattice work of tubes that are fastened together.
I am using stills of this scaffolding. The camera angle is such the the tubes are diagonal. The image has people in the scaffolding fastening them together. The scaffolding is about 60 ft. high. The workers are silhouetted against the sky. It’s a remarkable image. I want to do a Ken Burns effect…zoom in on a worker. The images are high resolution.
The problem is the diagonal lines get jaggy during the zoom. Is it possible to do zooms on thin diagonal lines? I am viewing this on a NTSC monitor.
Hope I made myself clear…all of this could be stated as: Is it possible to do a zoom on thin diagonal lines. Using AE 7.
Thanks in advance.
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2 Replies
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Thanks Dave, I appreciate your reply.
I figured out what was wrong on my own. The main thing was that I did not have my opengl setting on. But actually I reconfigured everything in the rendering and output sections. And I was more careful about resizing images…they like being resized by half if possible. By the way, I was not zooming beyond 100%.
The thing about a devilishly complicated program like AE is that one switch not flipped can screw you up. In my case, several things were wrong. And these things were not covered in the tutorials and books.
Here is what I am doing…this is just a “proof of concept” trial.
I’m headed in the right direction. The idea is to convey the intense work and competition that it took for a North American firm to build this project in Beijing.https://easylink.playstream.com/pford/testcombostream.wvx
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Well, Dave, OpenGL does seem to work with my machine. Rendering seemed to be much smoother after I flipped it on. However, I changed other settings as well. Could have been a combination or exclusively something else. However, it does seem that things work much with much more power with opengl set.
With a program as complicated as AE…one can read books and watch tutorials and still miss minor points….
Sometimes I think I should just hire a tutor for a couple days.
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