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wasn’t mean to behave this way?
Hi,
I created a vector file in freeHand (traced the jpg then exported as photoshop 3 EPS (.ai) file), brought it in AE and scaled up.
At high scale rate (around 400%) the image blurs and i can’t see the magnified artwork clearly.
well vector files are said to behave not this way, ur supposed to be able to scale them whatever and keep them clear? what have i done wrong?Thank you
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All I see: continuously rasterize. now dig into the help files and find the magic words and a whole new universe will open up…
Mylenium
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Thanks 🙂
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Hi, Mylenium –
Just quickly: what are the limitations to continuously rasterize for regularly layers and comps?
I have a case where I have some shapes in AI that I imported into AE7. I ran a Motion Tile on them, but the quality was blurry when I zoomed in. I hit continuously rasterize and the Motion Tile effect doesnt display. Should I precomp?
Also, would this feature help if I wanted to pull off the famous ‘infinite zoom’?
Dwaynne
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Continuously rasterize will keep blendmodes intact across compositions (e.g. if you have a layer set to Overlay in a subcomp, the parts showing through in the main comp will still act like Overlay mode and not revert to normal) and it will maintain detail on vector art. It will also change the order in which the rendering algorithm processes the layer. This does not work with effects, since in AE almost all effects are pixel-based, thus destroying all original vector info or not rendering at all. In those cases pre-comping is indeed the only solution. In theory it would also help you with infinite zooms if your images are vector based, but that’s not always possibel. For instance many elevation maps are still bitmapped and only other info such as roads are vectors. In those cases you generally have better luck by cross-fading multiple versions at different resolutions e.g. by combining satellite images with aerial photographs.
Mylenium
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This is probably a very dumb question, it seems like it’s something I should know…
What is this ‘famous infinite zoom’ thing I keep hearing about?
Thanks,
Ben Tubb“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”
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Most of the time it’s a zoom from outer space into the detail of a map. It could also be a zoom from a normal world detail level into a microscopic detail level.
Mylenium
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Myl
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