Orbiting Text Makes the Text Blurry

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October 23, 2024
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Hello!

I just updated my After Effects to version 25.00.

I'm creating a logo that has a tagline which orbits around the logo. I got that tagline to orbit just fine. The logo and the tagline were created by typing text in After Effects.

My problem is the orbitting tagline is blurry, and I can't make it sharp like the logo.

I tried adding a sharpening effect, and that looked horrible. One tutorial on YouTube suggested to pressing the star symbol next to the item in the timeline. That didn't work, and it changed the radius of the orbit too.

Please help! I don't know what to do.

Thank you!

Kelly

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Correct answer Warren Heaton

@KAM1001

Set the Radius value of the CC Cylinder effect to 100.

Go into the Composition Settings for your nested Comp named "Obiting Text 2" and increase the width and height by a factor of 2. Also, increase the Scale of the Layers inside that same Comp by a factor of 2. If the text is an After Effects Text Layer or vector-based artwork, it should look great scaled up with Continuously Rasterize enabled (this is enabled automatically for AE Text layers). If this nested Comp contains any raster-based artwork, you could try applying Detail-preserving Upscale or recreate it at a larger scale outside of After Effects and replace the corresponding source footage.

Then go back to the containing Comp called "Orbit Right 2".

Also, when judging picture quality, be sure that the Composition Magnification is set to 100%, not 400%.

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Airweb_AE

Legend

Text on Path is good to too, you can add extrusion depth and so on...

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KAM1001Author

Inspiring

Thank you for your suggestion! That did the trick! I scaled everything up by two and it's much better.

Warren Heaton

Correct answer

Community Expert

@KAM1001

Set the Radius value of the CC Cylinder effect to 100.

Go into the Composition Settings for your nested Comp named "Obiting Text 2" and increase the width and height by a factor of 2. Also, increase the Scale of the Layers inside that same Comp by a factor of 2. If the text is an After Effects Text Layer or vector-based artwork, it should look great scaled up with Continuously Rasterize enabled (this is enabled automatically for AE Text layers). If this nested Comp contains any raster-based artwork, you could try applying Detail-preserving Upscale or recreate it at a larger scale outside of After Effects and replace the corresponding source footage.

Then go back to the containing Comp called "Orbit Right 2".

Also, when judging picture quality, be sure that the Composition Magnification is set to 100%, not 400%.

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KAM1001Author

Inspiring

Ah, okay! I made it lage becasue it needed to stretch across the logo, but I can see how that would make it blurry.

Thank you so much for your help! I'll try again.

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jenkmeister17177426

Jenkmeister

The raidus you have set on the CC Cylinder is above 100%, which means the text is now getting scaled at the rasterized pixel level. The text will never be sharp with a radius above 100%.

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KAM1001Author

Inspiring

Here's the screenshot.

Thank you for your help jenkmeister!!