[Andrés Borghi]

it’s the same

[Andrés Borghi]

Hmm, ok, I’ll try with an image to illustrate my point. The text is NOT on a precomp, so collapse is not allowed. The text is right there in the main composition.

So, here it is:

Here, you see the text “El Cicho”, 3 times, one after another.

1-the first “El Cicho” is a jpg, a capture directly taken from facebook, so you can see how perfectly defined the pixels are. This is how I have to make the AE text look like.

2-The second “El Cicho” is a text layer from AE where I tried to get it to look just like the first “El Cicho”. As you can see in the layers below, this one has the “quality” feature ( “/” ) activated. The text looks blurry.

3-the third one is the same as the second one but in draft quality. You can see the pixels are well defined but the text is distorted.

So, I can’t get it to look like it should. Maybe I’ve reached some limit of the software…

[Andrés Borghi]

I’ll try to make it more clear.
My composition, which mimics a cmputer screen where the user is using facebook, must be exported as a full video in 1920 x 1080. it’s like making a screen capture of your pc right now, if were using facebook. later, the camera will make extreme close detail shots of the things people write in facebook, filming the screen of a real monitor.

So, I just need to imitate facebook, that’s all.

But when I make the text the size needed (it’s the same exact size you’re reading right now) the text gets blurry.

That’s the problem. If I lower the quality of the layer to avoid antialiasing so it remains pixelated, the text gets distorded. So, The ideal outcome would be to have the text perfectly pixelated just as the one you’r reading here, but I just can’t get to make it look like this.

[Andrés Borghi]

thanks for the info! didn’t know you could upload files here.

This is the video:

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/chroma-problem

This is how it looks when I try to “chroma it”

And these are the settings I’m using on keylight. You’ll notice some artifacts around the bars.

https://f1.creativecow.net/file/5800/5800_keyligthborghi.ffx.zip

[Andrés Borghi]

It finally worked!
I set the shutter in the effect at 181º and the effect showed in the render.

thanks! 🙂

[Andrés Borghi]

Sorry to triple post!

Jens: What you’re saying is that there’s an effect that does that from AE cs5?

[Andrés Borghi]

Just something I forgot to add: I’m not a native english speaker so maybe I don’t know some important words that makes it easy to understand me. So, sorry in advance!

[Andrés Borghi]

That’s iteresting.
yes, I actually don’t know how the effect works.
what I mean with accelerated footage is video footage set to last half it’s duration. So, it’s speed is doubled. If it’s a guy running then he runs faster. But when you do just that you can tell he is not really running at that speed cause he has less motion blur than he should have if the footage was naturally like that. So using CC Force motion blur over that layer adds the amount of MB it should have making it more natural to the eye. I’ve checked and works both ways: using the effect in the layer and also in a adjustment layer.

When Kevin suggested using frame blending I tried that. It didn’t make any result in the footage. It was the same if the FB icon was on or off. We can tell that it works with footage slowed down on AE, but when it’s made to last less time it doesn’t seem to do a thing.

so, that’s the problem basically. I accelerated footage on my composition and want to make it look like it was filmed at that speed by adding motion blur.

[Andrés Borghi]

The original footage runs at 25 fps with upper field dominance. So, i’m making the export look just the same.
I mentioned progressive footage cause i founf put that exporting in progressive keeps the effect there. I haven’t tried to revert the filed dominance in the export. like setting lower field. but that isn’t gonna help since I need it in upper.

[Andrés Borghi]

ok!