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Render format (avi vs. quicktime)
I’m wondering why, when I go to render in my render queue, I only have the option of rendering as AVI files. When I click on the blue letters, the drop down box only gives me the option to render as an AVI file. How do I change this option, and render it as say a Quicktime Animation instead?
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Okay…problem solved. I have to change one of the other selections in order to change the render format. But if I can ask a somewhat related question instead:
Why am I getting aliasing when I export a “lossless” QT Animation or AVI file (imported into Avid)? The letters are for titles, and when they’re blown up they’re very jaggedy. Is there a way to eliminate or improve the aliasing in After Effects?
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Whenever you resize footage the image quality degrades since the original pixels have to be resampled to fit in or spread out over a different frame size.This is more noticeable when you blow up footage than when you make it smaller. You should always do your text resizing in AE before importing it elsewhere.
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Where do I find the “text resizing function”? Or can you refer me to a place to figure out how to do this? I will be blowing up the titles for a bigger screen and need to re-size the text to get rid of aliasing.
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At the top of your screen in the Help menu choose the help center and you will find all you need to know about anything in AE.
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Uh…go to the Help section in A.E.? I guess that’s sarcasm? Or just plain mean. I have gone to Help. I’ve purchased the Total Training DVDs and have purchased the Visual Quickpro Guide. I’m not a moron. I taught myself Avid in a couple months, solely on my own. But I am NOT finding the answers to some very very basic questions. Not in Help. Not anywhere. All I’m trying to find out is how I preserve the quality of font in After Effects if I’m going to blow it up to a bigger projected image (i.e., on screen). Yes, it’s probably so simple it’s not even in the Help section or manuals. Because I can’t figure it out.
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Perhaps someone can just suggest an actual text size I should use that is a good benchmark for film projected credits generated by After Effects? I don’t know.
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My post wasn’t intended to be mean, sorry if it sounded that way. Many users don’t take advantage of the help. If your text was created in AE it will automatically be antialiased, if it was created in Illustrator or Photoshop you have to turn on the continuous rasterization button for that layer. But this will only work before you render the files. Decide beforehand how large you need your text to be in your final comp and resize the composition to that size.
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You can reduce the resolution of footage without too much degradation but enlarging it will always result in noticible jaggedness on edges, and this is most evident with text. Scale down footage–OK, scale up–bad!!
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