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DaisyS_85
DaisyS_85
Participant
June 19, 2017
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Blurry animation in After Effects

  • June 19, 2017
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I've think I've done something wrong whilst creating a new animation...

I've imported my .ai files into AE and animated but when I export these if I view fullscreen in QT the animation looks blurry and not sharp. So I looked at it in AE - On the AE composition viewer screen at 100% it looks fine, 200% is blurry)

I think the problem might lie with the actual source files maybe? I created my 'scene' (just basic characters) in Illustrator using the NTSC DV Widescreen template, I have no idea why. Is there any way of saving this animation so I don't have to re-import and do all the keyframes again?

Any help much appreciated!

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    Correct answer Warren Heaton

    Yeah you're right,  it looks good when playing 'Actual Size'. It is when I go full screen that the quality drops.

    Is there any way of helping that? I'm just thinking if we want to play it full screen on a laptop.


    You try changing your laptop's display resolution to better match the the movie resolution.

    So, if you're display is at a fairly high resolution like 3840x2160, 2880x1800, 2560x1440, etc. while your movie is 1920x1080, you could change your display resolution to 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 when presenting it full screen.  Of course, this requires making the change to your display settings every time you want to present the movie.

    Another approach is to try a different player that perhaps handles the differences between movie resolution and display resolution better than what you're currently using.

    -Warren

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    Mike_Abbott
    Mike_Abbott
    Legend
    June 19, 2017

    Check in the timeline that you have the 'continuously rasterize' layer switch enabled. It's the second switch column from the left - looks like a sun icon.

      DaisyS_85
      DaisyS_85Author
      Participant
      June 19, 2017

      Cool this helped a little bit, although not as crisp as I'd like. The only problem is, if I click the sun on some of the characters I've animated they don't move anymore. (I've used a puppet plug-in)

      Mike_Abbott
      Mike_Abbott
      Legend
      June 19, 2017

      OK - reading your original post again...

      If you are viewing it 'fullscreen' after you've rendered it you may well be looking at it at a bigger size than you rendered it. View it at 100% size in your player. Does it look OK?

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