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Character exporting VERY blurry. Not scaled up.

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October 22, 2017
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Hello!

First time using character animator but not new to Illustrator or AE. I've drawn a character in Illustrator and animated in CA - no problems. When I export the timeline from CA, however, the character renders as super blurry. I made the character deliberately larger so that I could scale down rather than up. I have the resolution playback at full. I've tried exporting the sample puppets from the welcome screen and they export blurry as well.

Here is a small snippet of the project exported as H264 using the PNG workflow into Premiere Pro. I've also tried to render through Media Encoder and AE but no difference.

Any ideas? Any help would be super appreciated!! I'm at a loss!

Thanks!

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reneey90912429Author

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Hi Jeff,

Yes the 400% resolution helps! Thanks!

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reneey90912429Author

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Hi Jeff,

Sorry for the delay too! No it's not Premiere. It's coming out of CH soft in the PNG export. I still don't know the problem. Have somewhat abandoned trying to figure it out. Nothing seems to fix it. Am hoping that future updates will magically fix this problem for me!

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reneey90912429Author

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Yes for 1080p size. Nothing to affect scaling in PP. The actual PNGs that come out of CA are blurry. I've tried a bunch of different characters with scaling, but everytime I scale down this happens.

Just imported into AE and rendered without accelerator. Still blurry. Don't have time to upload to YT but here is a screenshot of the .mov file.

Jeff Almasol

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Can you export the puppet (select it in the Project panel, then choose File > Export > Puppet, and save a .puppet file), and send me a shared link (via Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) so that I can take a look?

It might be due to the thin-lined artwork, but ideally if the Scene panel is showing 100% zoom and the Transform Scale is also 100%, the PNG export would hopefully match.

Thanks.

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reneey90912429Author

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Yes - can do! Thanks. Will PM you the DropBox link. Ta!

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reneey90912429Author

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Render as vector already checked. Doesn't help sorry.

Jeff Almasol

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Hmm, and the Ch scene in Premiere Pro is in a 1920x1080 sequence, correct?

Is the Premiere Pro project using hardware acceleration. If you switch to software rendering does it improve things? Or is there some other playback setting in Premiere Pro that affects scaling?

If you have After Effects, can you see if it's also blurry there when you import the Ch scene into it? Just want to identify if it's something specific to Premiere Pro or affects any Dynamic Link client.

Thanks.

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reneey90912429Author

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Sure!

SO - the above exported perfectly fine (yay!) however when I scaled the character down for a long shot it exported blurry (although it doesn't look that blurry in the PNG below it is really blurry in playback as per video posted above. I didn't scale the character up at all in Premiere. Is this normal? All I did was scale the character down in CA - it was obviously made larger in AI.

Do I need to create a different AI of the character for each shot size I intend to use?

Jeff Almasol

Adobe Employee

Scaling the artwork in Character Animator would be the way to go because vectors aren't transferred over Dynamic Link connections to Premiere Pro or After Effects at this time.

However, for Illustrator artwork, make sure you have the Render as Vector option enabled. Select the puppet in the Project panel, then enable that option located near the top of the Properties panel. See if that improves things.

Jeff Almasol

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Also, in Version 1.5, Illustrator-based puppets have a Resolution control (in the Properties panel) when Render as Vector is unchecked. Increasing this rasterization resolution to High (400%) might help, too.