[James Cook]

Hi Roy,

thanks for the post back.
No, I’m only looking at the text (on my workstation at least) at 100% – granted my graphics card is poor, but that doesn’t exclude the fact that the 2k sequences were viewed in a screening room and they still looked bad.
But also you may have a point, that we also deduced that; our screening room here is using an HD monitor and screen and therefore scaling down the 2k files. sure picture is fine but text is bad.

I may have to just concede that a blur needs to be added to bad fonts.

Do you agree with me though that some fonts are just too bad for motion – or is it a setting i’ve messed up on my machine?
The font i was using was Compacta. all uppercase and the worst characters are M, N and 4 – all the really severe diagonals.

If you get a chance.
scale down a caption – white on black over say, 5 seconds from 100% to 80% and see the jagged edges.
if you don’t then i’m skrewed. if you do then all is well and i can sleep easy.

james.cookgfx

[James Cook]

stick one of these big boys on the end of that render.
Not too pricy and it’ll just sit there and crunch away at those files for you.

We use the boxx workstations – top notch for 3d and AE
https://www.boxxtech.com/products/rendernodes.asp

james . dogpatch

[James Cook]

file – project settings – display style – change to frames.
it’s the little things that can wind us up like forgetting things like this that can waste hours.
i feel for you, did similar thing this afternoon.

james . dogpatch

[James Cook]

in vector paint effect control (ctrl shift T) – set playback mode to ‘animate strokes’ and composite paint to ‘as matte’
you may need to set the playback speed to something around 20 (depending on the speed in which you painted your mask.

hope this helps. It’s used for revealing organic swirls etc. joss stone video etc. etc. you get the picture, cheers,

jamo

james . dogpatch