How to make AE 7.0 look like 6.5???

[Josh Miller]

I’m not too sure about the text crispness but to get a better contrast go to Edit>Prefs>Display and then you should be able to lower the darkness of the overall interface.

Josh

[Preditor Ron]

i agree, i hate it too. i come from 5.5, but even 6.5 which i have on another computer, is better than 7.

it’s too small, the keyframes in the timeline are tiny, not near as clear and workable as earlier versions. i’ve tried to find it in my preferences, but no such luck.

wish they didn’t change the look so much, i know they do it after researching it, but i don’t like it.

but then again, they didn’t ask me! lol.

[Andrew Kramer]

what kind of monitors are you guys working on. Maybe your not using the correct monitor resolution. Can you guys be more specific.

Just wondering.

Andrew

[Jake Sargeant]

OK, I posted some screengrabs to show you what i’m talking about.

https://www.jakesargeant.com/ae

And the point is obvious. Look at how dead-on crisp the type is in AE 6.5.
It’s also brighter and ultimately more legible and easy to read. They got it
right in 6.5 with the text size and crispness. I don’t know why they messed
with the text in AE 7, but you can see it’s not nearly as crisp, it’s more
bulky and it’s this light gray color that the user should have control over
it’s color in different parts of the layout. Cinema 4D is a great example of
an interface that you can customize right down to the font color in
different palettes. Also, Adobe went and made the layers in the timeline
window 2 pixels taller in AE 7 than 6.5. So you lose out seeing as many
layers in comp with alot of layers. AE 6.5 just has a better look in terms
of the UI font and legibility and sizes in the timeline window. AE 7 has
alot of good features. But I hope someone figures out a way you can patch in
some of the 6.5 look into 7.0. This should be something addressed in AE 7.5.
Give the user options to change text color. The preferences in AE 7.0 for
customizing the UI are still pretty bare bones. How many people here agree
with me on these issues? I’d be interested to know

thanks,

jslicer

jslicer

[Steve Roberts]

It looks as if they anti-aliased the text in 7.0. Hm. Not good for teeny type.

[Accountclosedduetonorealnameused]

totally agree. I would LOVE more customizability as in Maya, or even FCP with function button placement.

[Andrew Kramer]

Interesting…

I don’t have that problem at all.

http://www.videocopilot.net/ae7.jpg

I’m on a PC in win XP.

Give me some info about your system. Video card, OS, could be a smoothing of screen fonts issue with windows XP itself. Are you using a standard theme. Are you using one of those fancy ones that come on computers?

Andrew

[Jake Sargeant]

Hey Andrew

That’s encouraging to see how crisp you have everything in Windows. That’s exactly what i’d like for AE 7 on a mac. With the way i have my monitor setup – it all looks great like yours in AE 6.5. But on a mac for AE, I think the text just comes anti-aliased. Please post a screenshot if you have crisp type on a mac running AE 7.

I’ll get to the bottom of this:)

jslicer

jslicer

[Filip Vandueren]

You can always go to your os X system prefs and in the “Appearance” pane, Turn off test smoothing for font sizes 12 and smaller.

Also, take a look at “tinkertool”, that will perhaps enable you to choose another font that kerns better without antialiasing.