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bad text edges in AE CS3
I’m working in AE CS3 with som text, but the edges look terrible. The quality is set to best and I can’t find any option for anti-aliasing… It’s not only text form AE itself, but also from PS of AI files… What is going wrong??? Thanks in advance!!
Stuffy
student
Image and Media Technology
Utrecht School of the Arts
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5 Replies
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It has alot to do with resolution… most fonts just don’t look good high res. I’m sure we need an expert for a more technical fix, but most animators (that knew more than me) that when fonts looked back they would just always do a box blur by only small percentages .2 .5 etc.
Hope this helps
Tim Robinson
tim@erobinsons.com
Pride-Mobility-Products
Corporate Video Editor -
Can you describe your workflow a bit more.
What are you doing to the text? When does it look terrible (in After Effects? After rendering?)
A bit more info would be handy :o)
Cheers,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Does the text look bad in renders viewed with Quicktime Player, or only in the AE comp window?
Can you switch off pixel aspect ratio correction in the comp window? If that improves it, you can switch it back on — it doesn’t affect renders.
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Thanks for all your replies! The solution is simple. It’s what Steve says about resolution. After Effect, and Photoshop, aren’t very good at rendering out text in 16:9 preview mode. It looks good in rendered files. The problem is the aspect ratio in preview mode.
Stuffy
student
Image and Media Technology
Utrecht School of the Arts
The Netherlands -
Technically, there is no preview mode in AE — we say “with pixel aspect ratio correction on”. Because it’s always previewing. 😉
But we’re glad you solved it.
(Utrecht — nice place)
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