How do i make AE not blur my graphics by default?

[Walter Soyka]

[David Ghast] “Not sure what you did there but its producing the inverse of what it is.”

Like I said in my original post, the image I showed here was the alpha channel. You were complaining about blurry transparency, so I was showing you that the alpha output was clean.

[David Ghast] “Also when the comp’s width increases the whole thing goes to hell. Thanks anyways.”

Read Roland’s description of anchor and position again.

The layers’ width in pixels is odd, so their center point is a half-pixel. When the comp’s width is also odd, its center point is a half pixel, so everything works.

The comp’s width is currently an odd number, and the layer’s width is an odd number. Because all the layers are centered in the comp, they are both positioned and anchored on a half-pixel. If you increase the comps’ width to an even number of pixels (and leave the comp’s anchor centered in Composition Settings > Advanced), then their positions will be a whole number and you will have a fractional difference between the layers’ anchor points and position points. This fractional difference will cause sub-pixel sampling.

If you want to avoid sub-pixel sampling, make sure that the difference between a layer’s anchor point and its position is a whole pixel, as Roland said. That means nudging the layers half a pixel right or left.

Walter Soyka
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