those wavy edges

[David Bogie]

> i get these wavy edges. < Nicely done effects, congrats on getting this far. The resolution of youtuoob is not adequate for me to guess at what you might mean. "Wavy line" inquiries are usually elementary field interpolation issues around here. That YT clip looks like it simply suffers from standard YT compression artifacts. You'd have to provide a higher rez sample for us to start throwing suggestions at you. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Sam Moulton]

youre seeing fields

make sure you separate fields then when you render, don’t put them back in

[Darby Edelen]

What was the process you used for this? It sounds like you generated the look frame by frame in Illustrator and imported a sequence. If that’s the case did you use auto-trace to generate the look? I’m not as familiar with Illustrator as Photoshop and AE but I think that a certain amount of inconsistency from frame to frame is inevitable unless you tweak your results really well. You could also try smoothing the vectors you get, but I don’t know how much that will help.

[Will Martindale]

i’m not familair with auto trace or how to smooth my vectors in illustrator. I did literally follow the cartoonifacation process, the keyed real footage did not have the wavy edges and im sure i did seperate the fields, so im thinking it is just a result of the live trace process.

would smoothing the vectors help? if so il learn what its all about

cheers.

[Darby Edelen]

[Will Martindale] “the cartoonifacation process”

I’m not familiar with the process, so that might be part of the problem =)

I forgot that it’s Live Trace in Illustrator, I was thinking of the Auto Trace feature in AE.