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Exporting poor quality
Hey all,
I’m currently running on After Effects 6.5 (I know, I know…*sigh*), and am doing a quick motion graphics intro for a demo reel. I’ve imported my multi-layered Photoshop graphic (company logo) into AE as a Comp and am adding my motion and effects. One of the pieces of the logo is a diagonal bar and it looks quite pixelated already in the comp window, and when I export it as a QT it just makes it worse.
I’ve checked (I believe) most of the simple fixes before posting here, I’m looking at it in Full Quality, I’m exporting 720×480 DV/NTSC using H.264 progressive (I also tried as interlaced) at Best quality using the slower encode. It just looks like absolute crap. It’s a high-quality Photoshop document that looks sharp anywhere else. Any ideas??
–Andy Owen
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Thanks so much for those tips Dave! My last employer used the Production Suite all together so that I just created a comp and when I was ready I imported it into Premiere’s timeline which gave me a polished line to work around. Well, now I’m on a mish-mash of software from AE 6.5 to FCP 5. It works…but this is the one graphic that’s giving me trouble and I can’t pick out what’s different.
It’d been so long since I couldn’t just drag a comp into PPro, that I’d forgotten all about the render queue! Duh! Thanks for that reminder.
As for the diagonal bar, it’s simply a 2D object in 3D space (using it with my camera layer). So the camera rotates from left to right while it drops vertically from off screen into the center of the screen. Pretty simple…I can’t figure out why it looks like trash. I’ll try re-creating it with the tools in AI and see if that helps too.
Rather than H.264, if I’m doing this to import it into FCP when I’m done, what would you recommend? Just a QT movie file?
Thanks again!
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