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Illustrator File is blurry in After Effects

Community Beginner ,
Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

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So I have this ancient logo for my agency that was made eons ago. I am trying to bring it into After Effects to do some animating with it but it just comes out blurry. I've tried continuously rasterize (in Ae) and document raster effect settings @300ppi (in Ai) but neither one helped. Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated

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Explorer , Jul 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020

The only thing left I could think of is your composition dimensions inside After Effects may be small.

If your AI file is 300x300 px and you dragged that into a new AE composition, it will create for you a comp that is 300x300 px. No matter how much you zoom into it, it will look pixelated because AE is not a vector-based software like AI.

So go to composition settings (CTRL+K) and change your comp dimensions to something like 1920x1080 px and then scale up the logo inside it with Continuously Ras

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Community Expert , Jul 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020

Raster Effects turn vectors into pixels so CR will not help that layer from AI. Simple as that. 

 

Try this:

  • Open the AI file in Illustrator
  • Set the document settings to pixels or points (they are the same when it comes to AE)
  • Check the artboard size and make sure it is at least the same size as your comp frame like 1920 X 1080
  • Position the logo in its hero position in AI and scale it up so that it looks the way you want it to in AE
  • Go to the View menu and turn on Pixel Preview
  • Set the AI Magni
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LEGEND ,
Jul 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020

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Without a screenshot and info about what features the AI file actually uses we can't really tell you much. And of course don't just check the raster DPI, but also the global document DPI. This stuff interacts sometimes in weird ways in AI. Also try to copy & paste your artwork to a new AI document with correct settings and use that.

 

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The only thing left I could think of is your composition dimensions inside After Effects may be small.

If your AI file is 300x300 px and you dragged that into a new AE composition, it will create for you a comp that is 300x300 px. No matter how much you zoom into it, it will look pixelated because AE is not a vector-based software like AI.

So go to composition settings (CTRL+K) and change your comp dimensions to something like 1920x1080 px and then scale up the logo inside it with Continuously Rasterize on and you will get it clear and well. 

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Raster Effects turn vectors into pixels so CR will not help that layer from AI. Simple as that. 

 

Try this:

  • Open the AI file in Illustrator
  • Set the document settings to pixels or points (they are the same when it comes to AE)
  • Check the artboard size and make sure it is at least the same size as your comp frame like 1920 X 1080
  • Position the logo in its hero position in AI and scale it up so that it looks the way you want it to in AE
  • Go to the View menu and turn on Pixel Preview
  • Set the AI Magnification to 100% and check, then 200% and check
  • If all is OK then save the file and import it into AE

You won't see much difference in the Raster settings from 300 to 72, especially when the view is set to 400% or more but you will see the aliased edges of the vector paths, and that's what they will look like in AE. All artwork prepared for video in AI should have Snap to pixel turned on and you should always test it with Pixel Preview turned on at 100% and 200%. 

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If this were my project I would make the artboard at least fit the comp, make the logo bigger than it needs to be, and if possible, duplicate every layer with A raster effect, put it on a separate layer above the original, and delete the raster effects, then import as a comp and see if you can't do a better job of creating drop shadows or other raster effects in AE.

 

 

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Jul 17, 2024 Jul 17, 2024

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Not sure if this will help anyone but i tried for ages to solve this and couldn't, then i realised my previews were set to 1/4 instead of Full. Could be that

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