Crisp image pixelated in AE

[John Cuevas]

You have scaled your comp up 400%, reset your comp window to 100% and it will be crisp. When you zoom into your comp, images, vectors, text, all become pixelated, AE doesn’t rasterize for comp zoom in.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Jon Simpson]

I understand that but when I go to the original file (sitting in a precomp) that sits in that window, I can zoom in all the way and it is waaaay crisper than how it looks in the main comp.

[John Cuevas]

Okay, that really shouldn’t make a difference, unless you have some different transformations going on in the precomp vs the final comp, effects in either comp? What type of file are we talking about, is it a bitmap or an illustrator vector based file?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Kevin Camp]

if you have a victory layer(s) in the pre-comp that have ‘continuously rasterize’ enabled (the little sun-like icon in the timelines’ s layer switches, next to shy layers option), then you’ll also nee to have that option checked in the main comp for that nested comp layer.

note that can change the behavior of that nested comp and effects on that netted comp in the main comp to some degree.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
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