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Alexander Cockburn
August 3, 2015 at 3:22 pm in reply to: CC 2015 – Keep getting Error: Cached Preview needs 2 or more frames to playback.

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Alexander Cockburn
January 31, 2014 at 9:39 am in reply to: Web Banner – 576×48 Text and graphics are badly posterised??

Thanks David this is what I suspected all along however as I am not completely familiar with AE I was doubting my own conclusions especially as the client is a blue chip (Dell) and their logo and other assets look terrible at such low resolution – it didn’t make sense and yes 10m wide…!
Thanks again
Alexander Cockburn
January 30, 2014 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Web Banner – 576×48 Text and graphics are badly posterised??

Hi John,

Yes but it’s almost impossible to work without scaling up and it’s not easy with aliased text and graphics…even at 100% the logos are badly aliased though as well which doesn’t make sense if it’s going to be pushed out on a 10m video screen… which I imagine would simply ‘scale up’ the aliased graphics and text very much like the zoom?

I have asked them to check with the client that the dimensions are correct..

Thanks for your attention

Alex
Alexander Cockburn
January 30, 2014 at 9:17 am in reply to: Web Banner – 576×48 Text and graphics are badly posterised??

Hi Dave,

Yes thanks I am aware and also exported to check it wasn’t a preview issue as per previous posts the text and assets are all posterised on export as per the screen grabs..(see previous post)

Is this just because 48 pixels high is a low resolution??

My graphic designer said the client had made a mistake as the vectors scaled down to these dimensions are blocky and this eventually needs to be upscaled to a 10m video screen.

As I said my original comp at 4000×400 and subsequently 5760×480 (10x larger) is perfect?

Alex
Alexander Cockburn
January 30, 2014 at 9:14 am in reply to: Web Banner – 576×48 Text and graphics are badly posterised??

Hi Jerry – thanks screen grabs attached. If you create a 576×48 project is your text smooth? I sent the ai and eps files (not shown) to a graphic designer who confirmed they were vectors but also confirmed that scaled down to 48 pixels they were blocky?? The Dell logo has been saved at 48 px square for the comp shown below..

As you can see 100% zoom looks okay but this is a banner that will go on a 10m video screen!!!

screenshot2014-01-30at09.06.54.png

At just 200% you can see it’s blocky.

screenshot2014-01-30at09.06.23.png

As per my previous post I have exported to check its not a preview issue and the exports are NOT smooth and are blocky just like the screen grabs.

Thanks!!
Alexander Cockburn
January 28, 2014 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Web Banner – 576×48 Text and graphics are badly posterised??

Hi Johnny – yes I am as I mention in the post.

I should add the comp is 15 fps, although I am not sure how that would effect static text and images at this stage…

I have also exported the animation to see if it is just a preview thing but its still badly posterised…
Alexander Cockburn
October 16, 2013 at 11:45 am in reply to: Which format to export for youtube without losing the quality after uploading?

Hi Shamik,

You Tube will default to an SD player based on your internet speed..there is no way to guarantee HD playback (unless you embed the video). Try clicking HD on your YT player first and see if it plays better?

This is the same for every viewer so no guarantee your viewers will see HD unless they have ticked the box to play all content in HD…

Hope this helps..

Alex