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LHue
LHue
Participating Frequently
October 25, 2018
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After Effects CC Render is Blurry

  • October 25, 2018
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I am rendering a few various sized compositions (300x250, 234x60, 728x90). They are all made up of png images and text created within After Effects CC. I have tried rendering out in multiple formats with different configurations within the built-in render queue and the adobe media encoder, but every export is blurry.

Does anyone have any suggestions or help for why this is happening?

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Correct answer Byron Cortez

Thank you all. Looking at QT, I am using version 10.4. So, I downloaded QT7 and things look great on there, especially using byroncortezh settings. 10.4 does not have a preferences option.


That's right, I thought you were using QT7 under Windows. I'm glad I helped you.

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OussK
OussK
Adobe Expert
October 26, 2018

you work mac and sure with retina display, and this will be a issue with the small video size, really because you will never run the video in the actual size (pixel to pixel) so in the small size video you will always look bury because quick time blowing them up to give you the maximum size otherwise you footage will look so small (related to the resolution you set), so try to use the smallest screen resolution you have (more space) and see if you can see your footage less blurry. anyway you can open the footage in quick time than switch between the largest and smallest resolution and see the different you will get immediately, and even on the (more space) you will not get the maximum resolution from your retina so you will still have this type of blur.

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David Arbor
Inspiring
October 25, 2018

It's possible that you found the minimum size of QuickTime player.

Also, why are you expecting in ProRes 4444? That's beyond overkill.

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David Arbor
Inspiring
October 25, 2018

Are you viewing each of these outputs at 100%? Those are all very low resolution, so if you're letting your viewer scale them they're going to look very blurry.

How do they look at 100% in Full quality inside After Effects?

You can do things like making sure your layers are pixel perfect, meaning they're sitting on whole pixels and not partial pixels. This will help with antialiasing.

LHue
LHueAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 25, 2018

Thanks David. They look great at 100% full quality in After Effects. I am working on a Mac, so I am viewing them in Quicktime after exporting. I don't believe QT is scaling them up?

I haven't had any success with pixel perfect.

LHue
LHueAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 25, 2018

Seeing some examples might help us troubleshoot a bit better. If we could see a screenshot of your AE interface as well as the QuickTime window showing it blurrier would help.

Also, what are your render settings?


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