Vector comes in pixelated no matter what I do_Illustrator vs After Effects

[sineadhanlon50]

Hi, 

I don't know what I am doing wrong with Illustrator and After Effects.

No matter what I do, my vectors in AE are coming in pixelated.

Can anybody help?

Sinead

[Kyle Hamrick]

Are you enabling Continuous Rasterization on the layer(s) in question?

[Andrew Yoole]

As Rick has explained above, it looks like your comp is probably too small and zoomed up in preview. Please post a screen grab of your entire UI so we can see your viewer settings and timeline.

[Rick Gerard]

So here's your screenshot:

Which by its self is almost completely useless in diagnosing the problem. The clue is that I can see the actual pixel grid. That tells me that the Magnification factor is probably 800%. It might be 400%.  The Comp Panel display is always pixels, never vectors. If the Magnification ratio is 100% or 200% for HR or Retina displays, and you scale a vector image up 2000% and have Continuously rasterize turned on it will always look sharp. With CR turned off it will look aliased. My experienced eye can tell the difference between Aliased and just looking at pixels. Check the corner of the comp Panel. Here's a shape layer, which is always vectors @ 1600% and the view is perfectly normal.

 

 

[sineadhanlon50]

Hi Rick, Thanks for your reply. Apologies if my image offended you with helping find a solution. Here is another screenshot.

From what I can see the magnification is at 100%.

I have also continuously rasterized as per my "Third Image".

[Rick Gerard]

The comp resolution is set to Half. It should be Auto or Full.

[sineadhanlon50]

Hi Rick, Even at Full it is showing pixalated

[Kyle Hamrick]

You're still zoomed in to 200% magnification here.

[sineadhanlon50]

Hi Kyle thanks a lot. But the ellipse still looks pretty pixelated for the magnification amount, no?Its a clean vector shape from AI so I would've thought it would be crisper than that

[Kyle Hamrick]

It should be, yes. We just need to narrow down the reasons that might be happening!

[Kyle Hamrick]

Ok, so we've eliminated Continuous Rasterization and resolution. If your magnification setting isn't the issue, we'll start exploring other things.

Do you have any effects on any of these layers? We can't see your top layers - is there an adjustment layer up there, perhaps?

[Rick Gerard]

If you set comp resolution to Auto and Magnification t0 100% and you scale a vector layer (still have not shown us any modified properties of the layers) and CR is turned on, and Scale is over 100% and you are getting aliased edges then the AI file has pastor effects applied in AI that have turned the vectors into pixels.