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Preview in AE vs Combustion
I just discovered that my previews in AE (6.5 and 7) look crap on my Sony PVM 20 monitor compared to Combustion 3. I always have problems judging type in AE (being a print guy makes it even worse). Everything looks aliased even at large sizes. Only recently I took the time to take a look at Combustion and see if its worth investing time and effort in learning this app. Then it hit me that the previews on the broadcast montitor looked very good compared to AE. Then I did a test using the same specs: in a D1 Pal comp I put in a text 72px in size. In AE it looks aliased. Even a small solid looks odd. I’ve checked the prefs of both app but couldn’t find anything wrong. Anyone got a clue? Here’s my setup:
G5/2GbDP/4Gb on 10.4.5, Decklink HD (latest driver 5.2.4), AE 6.5/7, Combustion 3.04
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do you have the little “quality” switch set to High for your text elements? Does regular footage look ok in AE? It should be just as good looking as Combustion.
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Nope Charlie, the switches are set to hi quality. It’s not a type issue but with type I noticed this problem first. But even on a solid of let’s say 200 by 100 px rotated around 17 degrees it looks ugly.
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Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear enough in explaining my problem. The preview issue occurs only with previewing through the Decklink card on the broadcast monitor. The computer monitor (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb) views ok.
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So if you render out of AE, it looks correct in Final Cut or wherever?
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I just recently have FCP for capturing DV stuff. I’m still a novice there so I get a bit lost in terminology and finding the right capture presets in FCP. Anyway, I rendered out a test file uncompressed/upper in AE7 and imported that in FCP. Did a preview and it looks ok. Come to think of it, wasn’t there an issue with AE not being able to give a decent RAM-preview that supports fields on broadcast monitors? Sorry if my questions are a bit lame but for a print guy it’s sometimes a bit confusing. Everything we see is always wysiwyg.
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I think I’ve found it. According to a post in the AE forum here on the Cow there’s a bug in the “Video preview” prefs. I’ve turned off the “mirror on computer monitor” and now the preview looks a lot better.
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