[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok, found it (anti-alias/quality toggle).

THANKS!-)

(… and I apologize as I know I’ve been kind of spaming this thread this morning)

[Ignatius Gorin]

(…trying to find some kind of resample thing in AE, like Photoshop’s bicubic, since it’s Adobe, I still have hopes 🙂

[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok I think I found the “lock” function, left of the timeline, along with video/audio/solo right?

Now I’m left with the aliasing problem.

TIA.

[Ignatius Gorin]

Ok, I pretty much found my way through AE (5.5 here BTW) to apply your technique. Two things : I couldn’t find the template function, so neither could I lock it or hide it. When you say “This is a template: lock it” how do I tell AE that it is one (template) 😕 Also the version installed here is in French…

But it looks about ok, except one thing : aliasing on the circle edge… what I end up with here is useless due to that.

How could I do so the circle’s contour is smoother?

Thank you again.

[Ignatius Gorin]

>> 1 – how can a circle be “same size” as a square ..? << That's why I used quotes around "same size". What I meant was that the circle's diameter = either the square 's side or diagonal. Or it could be same area, like if the square is 50x50 (area=2500) then pi*r^2=2500 [or (2500/pi)^(1/2) if I'm right] for the square. Well I dunno 🙂 For the rest, I'll let Steve answer 🙂 (and I still have to try he's technique as we're very short on time and doing other needed stuff).

[Ignatius Gorin]

No, just plain color within the square.

And 45′ is totally ok (compared to 50 _hours_…).

Thanks!

[Ignatius Gorin]

MANY thanks !-)

[Ignatius Gorin]

Many thanks for the quick answer !

I’m not in front of it right now but it seems to make sense, I’ll try it later as soon as I can.

Is this using reshape? Is there render time? I failed from my chair when my guy announced that it would take 50hrs to render this kind of stuff on a dual proc G5…

I see two ways to go from a square to a circle : either the circle is contained within the square (size wise), i.e. the diameter of the circle = one square side, or, the square is contained within the circle, i.e. diameter = square diagonal… or somewhere in between, like half way, i.e. circle diameter = square (side+diagonal)/2; now I’m thinking maybe this last option would be the smoothest, so as not to have to shrink or expand the initial shape too much. What do you think? But this doesn’t seem to affect your technique.

Also, should I want a drop down shadow underneath the animated shape afterwards, would that be complicated?

Thanks!