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Scale interpolation, I need razor sharp pixels!
Hi all
I’m working on a promo and I need to have some animated gif’s (yeah, those pixillated graphics that you can find everywhere) to be comosited over some footage. the problem is that gif’s are usually quite small and when you scale graphics in AE it does some kinf of interpolation that make them look blurry. that’s good for scaling video and still images but I need sharp big pixels. Any way to disable that interpolation?. It’s like when you import illustrator art and then turn on the constantly rasterize option, but that’s for vectors, not pixels.
Any ideas….?
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3 Replies
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Just set those layers to draft quality and render using current settings; not best.
But beware that you also loose sub-pixel position animation, and that will be noticeable if you have slow crawling motion.
Maybe do a pre-render to scale them up into a Quicktime-movie, then bring them back in to move them around. -
Another option would be to scale them up in Photoshop setting the interpolation to nearest neighbor. If you scale to the largest size you will need then only scale Down in AE you will get better results – nice crisp blocky pixels but antialiased in AE.
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I tried setting to Draft, but the quicktime it exports adds another level of pixelation. The movie does not look like the canvas does in ‘Draft’ mode — it is much lower resolution. Anyone know another way to do this?
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