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frankmaherae
frankmaherae
Inspiring
November 5, 2022
Question

Previews and Renders blurry in AE 2023

  • November 5, 2022
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Hi,

I updated AE to the new 2023 version and it has been fine so far but suddenly everything is blurry. Even simple shapes are stuttering and glitching in the AE preview. I have attached a few screenshots of settings and a quick rendered video through Media Encoder but as I say the problem is within AE as the video shared actually looks worse in AE itself. 

 

I'm relatively new to AE and am no doubt doing something silly but am at a loss as to what it might be.

 

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Frank

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
November 7, 2022

The C4D renderer has nothing to do with Cineware/C4D Lite. It's always available in the advanced composition settings. If that isn't the problem then you really need to tip-toe through all settings that could affect framerates - comp settings, project settings, preview settings, footage interpretation, render settings.

 

Mylenium 

frankmaherae
frankmaheraeAuthor
Inspiring
November 7, 2022

Thanks for getting back to me,

I found that and it is set to Classic 3D so it's not that I guess. Can I ask where I can get help going through these settings as I really wouldn't know what to look for. Is there a contact with Adobe that deals with such queries? I've tried looking already and just see the forum but perhaps there's something else?

Thanks

f

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
November 6, 2022

Any chance you accidentally switched the comp renderer? The C4D renderer does not support motion blur and that might explain the jittery motion since it would not calculate motion blur as well the fact that it works for other comps that may use the standard 3D renderer.

 

Mylenium

frankmaherae
frankmaheraeAuthor
Inspiring
November 7, 2022

Thank you Mylenium,

 

I've tried to have a look for that and I'm not sure I have the option. Where would I find that? I installed AE without Cinema 4D so I am guessing that that renderer would be removed also but perhaps I'm wrong. There is also no motion blur added to that animation if that is a factor.

 

This problem is starting to drive me nuts. I took the opportunity to reboot windows, which I had planned to do at some point, in the hope that installing everything from scratch might do something but to no avail. 

 

Also, I mentioned in the previous message that previous projects seem fine. Whilst that's the case, if I go back to those and do the animation I shared with the little box zipping across the screen, it actually looks terribly blurry too so I don't know anymore. Wondering at this point if I'm imagining things. I did another similar render of a rectangle crossing the screen but this time with a white bg for a bit more clarity, 1 sec across and 1 sec back, it looks weird right? I'm not imagining it? I mean it's hard to watch it and not feel a headache coming on.

I'm at a loss and desperate to get back to work. Any help appreciated,

Thanks so much,

Frank

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
November 5, 2022

Your stuttering could indicate framerate mismatches, so check the comp settings, preview settings, footage interpretation. The rest makes no sense. What is a big pale green solid supposed to tell us? If there is any bluriness, you need to choose a suitable example with actual visible edges. That, ansd of course you haven't provided any system inffo, details about your hardware acceleration settings, cache settings and so on. You need to provide much better and more info.

 

Mylenium

frankmaherae
frankmaheraeAuthor
Inspiring
November 6, 2022

Thank you Mylenium for the reply,

You'll have to be patient with me, this is all pretty new to me and I'm figuring it out as I go. I appreciate the help though.

The big green solid in the screenshot should have been minimized; the preview settings were to the right of it and I wanted to just share my whole screen in case there was something that I was unaware of given my level.

 

My computer:

DELL XPS 15 7590

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installed RAM: 32.0GB [RAM reserved for AE in settings = 28.7GB - 3GB for other applications]

 

External Hard Drive for Cache:

Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q 1TB USB 3.2 / Thunderbolt 3 External SSD [Using the tunderbolt connection]

 

The GPU is NVIDIA GeForce GTYX 1650 and I’m set to Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA) in project settings.

 

There doesn’t seem to be any discrepancy in frame rates. Everything is set to 25fps. I’m not importing any video footage. Everything is created in either Illustrator or AE itself although this problem did start when I imported a vector file from Illustrator (via Overlord). What was done earlier in the project seems to play fine as do previous project files when I open them whereas anything I create now has this migraine-inducing blur to it.

 

I uninstalled and reinstalled AE 2023 and even installed 22.6 again but the same result in both versions. I don’t think it has anything to do with screen display settings as previous work looks fine. I only see this when I’m previewing and in what I render, when things are still they’re crystal clear.

 

I’ve attached for example a rectangle crossing the screen and back, 1 sec each way, no motion blur, I hope you can see what I mean. It’s jagged and hard to watch.

 

I really have not idea what I’ve though I’m pretty sure I’ve done something.

 

Really do appreciate the time and help. If there’s anything I’ve missed out do please let me know and I’ll try and fish it out.

Thanks,

Frank

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