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  • Problem importing EPS in AE7

    Posted by Bausdtown on May 17, 2006 at 9:46 am

    Hey,

    i have a very serious Problem.
    I have AE7 on Mac OS X.

    I have a EPS-Image: a Logo with a kind of metal-texture in the background. when I import this eps in After FX, the background is not as solid as it should be.
    There are thin lines in between.
    To check, if it is a problem of this specific eps, i imported some other eps-files. same problem here.

    i check the star on the eps-layer that says optimise vectorlayer (i have the german version, so i’m not sure, what this icon is called in english) and if i now change the scale, these kind of lines appear and disappear at different places, depending on the percent of scaling.

    I have absolutely no idea.

    And this is a very important Job-Project, so I’m in a desperate need of help!

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    Bausdtown replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Alon_a

    May 17, 2006 at 4:32 pm

    I’m guessing the “optimise vectorlayer” switch is the one called “Continuous rasterization” in the English version, in which case you’re doing the right thing.

    I think the problem is that background fills are not ideally imported as .EPS files. EPS is a vector format and the metal texture is probably (I’m guessing) just a bitmap. So, if for example you scale your logo text you would not want the bitmap to scale as well since that would look bad.

    If the texture is repetive, perhaps the vector program in which the EPS was created (Illustrator?) was used to tile a small bitmap, and when you import the tiling is not retained perfectly and you see those thin lines.

    Basically what I would do is try to get hold of the metal texture *separately* as an image file, not vector, and if necessary re-tile it in AE. Also get the logo alone in EPS format and then you would get a clean rasterized vector for the text, at any scale, and the texture would remain nice and clean.

    I hope I’m on the right track here, just trying to help…

    – AA

  • Bausdtown

    May 17, 2006 at 5:00 pm

    Thanks for your answer but that seems not to be the case.

    The thing is, the Image has an Alpha channel. And the thin lines seem to be transparent to.
    And they are not just in the BG-part of the image, but go right through the Text also.

    if nobody has an idea until tomorrow, i try to post a screenshot (but i don’t know, if i’m allowed to, because of buisiness-stuff)

  • Sam Moulton

    May 17, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    Check the interpretation and make sure that antialiasing is set to more accurate rather than faster. you’ll find it under options at the bottom of the window.

  • Bausdtown

    May 19, 2006 at 7:37 am

    Yeah! That worked.
    Thank you so much!

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