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Joeycusa2019
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February 5, 2021
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I lose sharpness when I zoom onto solid shape in After Effects

  • February 5, 2021
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Dear all, this is driving me crazy! I'm in After Effects.

 

I created a shape, and then when I animate to zoom in, the curved shape edges look terrible! Is there a way to retain sharpness at zoom? The shape was created in AE, so nothing to do with importing anything in. See images.

 

Help! Thanks!

 

Joe

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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February 5, 2021

Your cropped screenshots are completely useless for diagnosing the problem. My best guess is that you are using the Magnification Ratio in the Composition Panel to look at your comp magnified 400% or more so everything is normal.

 

One thing that I can tell is that the shape layer is not perfectly aligned with the pixel grid.

 

If you have not figured things out select the shape layer, press the U key twice to reveal all modified properties of the layer, set the Comp Panel resolution to Auto, and set the magnification ratio to 100%. If the shape layer still looks soft, post the screenshot showing us what you have done and we can help you figure it out.

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Joeycusa2019Author
Participant
February 5, 2021

Thanks Gerard, I got the answer from another forum. I just needed to hit continuously rasterize on the layer and as I zoom in, the shape redraws with clean edges. Regards. Joe

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P.M.B
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February 5, 2021

You do not need to continually rasterize a shape layer as shape layers are drawn with

continuous rasterization activated by default.  You couldn't turn it off if you wanted to.

As a new user you should provide the forum with every action you've taken up to the problem.

If activiating continuous rasterization fixed your problem it means

that you must have had the shape layer pre-composed, which menas you were scaling

a composition and not a shape layer.

As Rick said Cropped screen shots are useless.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/faq-what-information-should-i-provide-when-asking-a-question-on-this-forum/td-p/3928960

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