[Jay Brown]

Thanks Jon

That seems to have fixed it

[Jay Brown]

Thanks Dave

‘with the emitter point following a mask’ – this was the point in the right direction I was after. I was unaware of such a procedure.

I’ll go and research this further

thanks

[Jay Brown]

Thanks Ray

I guess I couldnt see the wood for the trees – was thinking of way too complicated work arounds to see the simpler solution

[Jay Brown]

Ok

Thanks guys for all your help…….. legendary patience Dave!!!

Darby youve made me feel sane again …… It was a “Im missing some check box for sure’ moment. :O)

Ive tried moving it left to right and get success to a certain degree with one or the other edges of the logo – not both and it fails when they animate

So the vertical bar on the right starts adjoined to the white on the left – it slides right and the opacity for the 2 ramps from 0 to reveal it.

The left and right 2 pieces of the log when adjoined at the start ramp in opacity to before the animation occurs.

So my problem is as the pre split logo ramps in opacity you can see the split due to the antialiasing (I think this is the right term in this case and not aliasing?) i can fix the final result by over lapping to begin with but you still see the ‘add’ effect of the 2 layers overlapping.

The image is here……

https://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll214/hindsite74/?action=view&current=close_up.jpg

Any ideas?

Thanks again

[Jay Brown]

Sorry guys- not to daft but I have never posted a picture on the forum before and cannot find information on how to do so.

The link to explaining posting seems to be broken

apologies once again

[Jay Brown]

hmmm

Im really confused now……….I created the logo in Illustrator myself – its split and on two layers

………back to the drawing board i guess

Im right in thinking I shouldnt be getting the anti aliasing on straight edges in After effects, right?

[Jay Brown]

Thanks DAve

I am working with the ai at a layer level not from the comp level.

I have tried the continuous switch at layer and comp layer to no avail.

The (perfectly) straight edges are antialiased 1 pixel thick on import before moved or scaled(this I cannot understand the need for)

It is particularly noticeable as the logo is white

thanks for your patience in this matter

[Jay Brown]

Hi

I am using the Continuously Rasterize switch

I have just done a test by bringing in a perfect square from illustrator into Afx – again one of the vertical sides has a 1 pixel thick anti alias line on it

Is this normal in Afx – or am I missing something

This is very frustrating

thanks in advance

[Jay Brown]

Yes

i have 2 .ai files on 2 different layers in the comp

[Jay Brown]

Thanks again

Great link

With what you suggested I tried rendering a small particular heavy file b4 and after style. With the mutlicore enabled and ram cache dropped the render time dropped from 59sec to 34sec.

Impressive drop even on only 2G Ram