After effects blurry

Question

I have had major issues recently. I am new to After Effects and I work with lots of Adobe products. I am just trying to make an animation to go on a electric billboard with the dimensions of 342x144 px. I have been working on this for a couple days but every time I import my Illustrator work, it becomes blurry in After Effects. And yes I have checked coninusly rasterize check box.

I have come to the conclusion that the dimensions are just too small. Am I missing something or am I right about small dimensions.

Rick Gerard · Answer

Your preview is at 200% magnification so you are probably going to see pixels. I don't see CR turned on for any layers.

The comp size is very small. Depending on the output file specifications you might be better off creating your AI artwork on an artboard that is at least twice as large as the final output, doing the same for the main comp, then dropping your main comp in a smaller comp for rendering. You can apply sharpening to the smaller comp to help with the compression.

You should also be aware that the pure white against pure red is not going to compress well if you use any kind of MPEG compression. It is also going to be quite difficult to get an accurate preview on your monitor because even if your screen is HD, the final render will only take up about 18% of the screen and that's awfully small. You'll have to look at the final at full resolution and 100% magnification to have a good idea of what it looks like.

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