text renders blurry

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text renders blurry

Posted by Mike Jeffs on January 11, 2012 at 6:02 pm

I am trying to render out a project and the is weird blurness happening when it renders. it is not there when you ram preview or even just park the cursor. Here is a snap shot of my workspace

and here is a screen shot of the rendered video

I have search around and followed what people have suggested to do, such as trash preferences , make sure render setting doesn’t have use openGL but no luck my video still renders out blurry .

Please help

Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho

Mike Jeffs replied 14 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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Tudor “ted” jelescu
January 11, 2012 at 6:24 pm

Have you tried rendering with out the Motion Blur on?
See if that still happens. You can add an adjustment layer on top and apply CC Force Motion Blur if you want Motion Blur.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Mike Jeffs
January 11, 2012 at 7:27 pm

I did make sure motion blur was turned off and also OpenGL is turned off

Mike Jeffs
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Kevin Reiner
January 11, 2012 at 7:29 pm

What might be happening is that you have layer’s motion blur checkbox activated, but you have the global motion blur setting for the comp turned off. Then when you go to render, the default for motion blur under Render Settings is “On for Checked Layers”.

If that isn’t it, look at your DOF settings. Also, do you only have one camera in the comp?

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Kevin Reiner
January 11, 2012 at 7:31 pm

But you have motion blur turned on for all your text layers. Read my last post, I’m pretty sure that’s your problem.

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Kevin Camp
January 11, 2012 at 7:36 pm

[Kevin Reiner] “But you have motion blur turned on for all your text layers.”

yep, you can toggle the preview motion blur, but if mo-blur is on for a layer, when you render, ‘best settings’ is set to render with mo-blur for any layers that have it enabled in the comp. the preview setting is independent of the render settings.

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Kevin Reiner
January 11, 2012 at 7:45 pm

Right, I wouldn’t necessarily ditch the motion blur. It often adds realism to movement. Your settings might be just a little high. Turn on your motion blur preview, then under the Advanced tab in Composition settings, change shutter angle to around 100. Play with that setting until you like what you see. Or turn off motion blur on all your layers.

-Kevin

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Mike Jeffs
January 11, 2012 at 10:12 pm

THATS IT it was the DOF setting on the Camera Layer. ARRRGGGGG thank you all for you help

Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho

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