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October 23, 2024
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Orbiting Text Makes the Text Blurry

  • October 23, 2024
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Hello!

I just updated my After Effects to version 25.00.

I'm creating a logo that has a tagline which orbits around the logo. I got that tagline to orbit just fine. The logo and the tagline were created by typing text in After Effects.

My problem is the orbitting tagline is blurry, and I can't make it sharp like the logo.

I tried adding a sharpening effect, and that looked horrible. One tutorial on YouTube suggested to pressing the star symbol next to the item in the timeline. That didn't work, and it changed the radius of the orbit too. 

Please help! I don't know what to do. 

Thank you!

Kelly

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Correct answer Warren Heaton

@KAM1001 


Set the Radius value of the CC Cylinder effect to 100.

Go into the Composition Settings for your nested Comp named "Obiting Text 2" and increase the width and height by a factor of 2.  Also, increase the Scale of the Layers inside that same Comp by a factor of 2.  If the text is an After Effects Text Layer or vector-based artwork, it should look great scaled up with Continuously Rasterize enabled (this is enabled automatically for AE Text layers).  If this nested Comp contains any raster-based artwork, you could try applying Detail-preserving Upscale or recreate it at a larger scale outside of After Effects and replace the corresponding source footage.

 

Then go back to the containing Comp called "Orbit Right 2".

 

Also, when judging picture quality, be sure that the Composition Magnification is set to 100%, not 400%.

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KAM1001Author
Inspiring
October 23, 2024

I redid the tagline in Illustrator, and imported it into AE. I clicked that star in the pre-comp and the comp in the main timeline. It's still blurry when I look at it in full resolution mode — and it's blurry when rendered. Ugh! I'm so frustrated.