After Effects Blurs Renders??
by Walker
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Jan 19, 2006 at 7:35:03 am
Hello, First I'd like to thank anyone who can help me with this as I've run into a strange problem and don't know what to do.. I've been using After Effects 5.5 pro for quite some time now and have not had a problem with it. I've recently upgraded to AE 6.5 pro and installed it on my G4 powerbook (1.67GHz; OSX3.7). However, all my renders are slightly blurred. I've done some tests and imported fully uncompressed footage into AE and then rendered it (I've tried all different codecs on quicktime and even tif sequences) and all render slightly soft, so that the edges are not quite sharp (when compared to the original footage back in my avid).. And this is with no effects or anything added in AE! I can't work out what might be causing it, but if anyone has come across this, or if there's a setting or something I have missed, can you please help as it's driving me insane. I would really appreciate advice and thanks in advance. cheers.
Re: After Effects Blurs Renders?? by Barend Onneweer on Jan 19, 2006 at 12:48:51 pm
Are you separating fields in AE, and rendering without fields? In that case you could be de-interlacing the footage which might cause the slight loss of resolution.
Re: After Effects Blurs Renders?? by Eric Steinberg on Jan 19, 2006 at 9:30:12 pm
Another cause could be that in AE 5.5, layers were set to draft quality (the dotted slash) as a default, while in 6.5 they're set to best quality (the solid slash), which in turn invokes sub-pixel-rendering. On a piece of video footage where you don't do any scaling or anything else, the sub-pixel-rendering will cause the footage to render slightly softer than the original. If in fact your layer is set to best quality, try switching it to draft, and compare the results. If I'm right, the draft setting should fix your problem. But there will of course be situations (like scaling) where you need to keep full quality.
Re: After Effects Blurs Renders?? by thewanggao on Jan 20, 2006 at 7:15:39 am
I'm not sure if OpenGL applies to plain old footage, but I ran into some problems before where I was lettign OpenGL render my motion graphic comp and it took a while for me to spot the error.
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