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  • jagged results with wave warp effect

    Posted by Stu Chudy on December 18, 2005 at 4:22 pm

    I am hoping someone can shed some light on this problem I am having. I wish to use the wave warp effect with the sine setting on a pretty high resolution layer (HD 1920×1080). When I crank the wave height settings any higher than 60 (my desired settings would be 120) with the wave width settings up high (900) I get some VERY jagged results. Some strange stairstepping effect that is totally unacceptable. The effect’s anti-aliasing setting is set to high. I thought maybe the quality was on draft, or that it wouldn’t render that way, but it does and there seems to be no way for me to resolve this uglyness. I could not find any other plugin that may do the same thing better (I like having control over the speed in my expressions).

    Is this just a bad limitation of this effect? Is there any suggested workaround or alternatte effect that I can buy to generate smoother sine wave curves?

    Thanks in advance for any help.
    stu

    Andy Sapp replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Andy Sapp

    February 19, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    Sorry to bump an old thread, especially since I found a duplicate thread of this in the expressions section that I already bumped, but I have run into this issue as well.

    I would love to know if there is a workaround, or if there is an alternate plugin I can buy that wouldn’t stair-step the aliasing so bad at the higher heights/widths of the sine wave. My anti-aliasing setting in the wave warp plugin is set to high, but it does no good (layer quality is also set to high).

    None of my research has pointed me in the direction of a third-party plugin that works the same way. But perhaps someone knows of one available.

    Andy Sapp
    http://www.andysapp.com

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