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Text Tool Wiggles and Artifacts
Ever since the introduction of the WYSIWYG text tool I have been a little disappointed in the quality of finished and rendered text involving any animations of scale or vertical motion.
Seems that whether you nest a comp or do it on the original layer interlace type wiggling is introduced to almost all edges, even on thicker fonts and strokes. This is much worse when using text with strokes or one of the faux settings like bold or italics.
Another place this shows up is when applying glows as an effect to this text in motion, especially when scaling. There can be a lot of flicker and and other artifacts.
My guess is that some of this is caused by the way text is continuously rasterized or the order effects are applied in with regard to the rasterizing. Now with an EPS file you can turn this off or defeat it by nesting a few comps…but that shouldn’t really be required. Even so, text can turn off rasterizing.
Any ideas. Anyone else notice this?
Chris Magid
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I can’t say I’ve been too conscious of this. Have you done the old 0.25/0.5px directional blur trick to take the edge off it?
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Oh yeah…we use blurs to calm stuff down but sometimes you would have to apply too heavy of a blur to solve the issue. And it does not solve the problem with glows and strokes
Plus I don’t think this is interlace related I think this is due to AE redrawing the font after each little scaling movement…scale…draw…scale…draw…scale…draw. And then effects are applied downstream of this.
Chris Magid
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