[Matrub Jones]

Yeah I’m familiar with Moire. It’s not that. It’s not that kind of flickering. I mean the layer style appears…then disappears..then reappears…then disappears. Almost as if After Effects is exporting it on some frames…but not on others.

And it’s random…intermitent. Like I’ll remder a piece of video to watch…it will have no flickers. Then later on I’ll watch some new animation on the same scene and it will flicker like crazy. Doesn’t matter if it’s Quarter, Third, Half, or Full res RAM previews.

For the most part I’ve just taken the layer styles off…but certain things I’d like them to stay on. I’m down to the last item that I don’t want to have to design as a flattened image (without a layer style). So i’m trying to find a solution now.

[Matrub Jones]

The original PSD files are all 960 in height…varying in width. Basically I’m using twice the size of 720×480 (1440×960). If I have a scene I want to pan across it’s alot wider than 1440. Original resolution is 150dpi.

Could be the pattern itself but I’m using different patterns for different textures and it’s happening across the board. Things like stroke and drop shadow remain in tact so I’m sure it’s not a sizing issue or else it would be happening on anything with a layer style. No?

[Matrub Jones]

In my opinion, it’s still good practice. According to this theory, a resolution of 1dpi would matter just as much as 72.

[Matrub Jones]

Depends…

if you are going to be scaling these images in After Effects past 100%, then you should use 150dpi.

Generally I like to work at twice the size and twice the resolution to maintain best image resolution. Also, vector shapes are also better then raster shapes…especially with rounded edges.

[Matrub Jones]

That’s what I thought.

Thanks so much Joe

[Matrub Jones]

Thanks Joe…appreciate your feedback.

So then if Encore does not offer any verification that it has written the CSS, then is there way that I can??…Maybe some freeware???