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TALLGRL29
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November 1, 2013
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EPS vecotor looks awful in Premiere CC. Why?

  • November 1, 2013
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The same file worked and displayed well in Premiere CS6. I've opened the project with Premiere CC and the vector EPS appeared rasterized and low res. It displays this way on preview of the video and after exporting the movie. Why is this happening and how can it be fixed?

    Correct answer AndyBobMcKee

    It seems that Premiere and After Effects treat vectors differently. One solution would be to use the "Replace with After Effects Composition" option. In After Effects there is small button that looks like a sun. Ticking this button for your EPS layer turns on continuous rasterization and you can scale for you hearts content.

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    jeanmarcusphoto
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    April 20, 2017

    I had the same issue and I came up with a solution.  Take the EPS illustrator file and open up in Photoshop and just to be safe enlarge the size of the file to be larger than the resolution of the Premiere file you are working on.   Save it as a PNG file and import into Premiere that way. It looks really sharp now for me. Hope it works for everyone else here.

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    J__Matthew_Brown
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    January 3, 2017

    Had the same issue using CC. My fix (which I don't love) was open the .ai file in photoshop and make it HUGE. Bring it back into Premiere and it looks sharp. Seems so strange that Premiere can't resolve the vector files to create high res graphics from .ai files though.

    AndyBobMcKee
    AndyBobMcKeeCorrect answer
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    May 5, 2016

    It seems that Premiere and After Effects treat vectors differently. One solution would be to use the "Replace with After Effects Composition" option. In After Effects there is small button that looks like a sun. Ticking this button for your EPS layer turns on continuous rasterization and you can scale for you hearts content.

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      Bennett5FA1
      Participant
      October 20, 2022

      This helped me out 6 years later! Thank you

      Chevallier
      Chevallier
      Participant
      April 8, 2016

      Also here waiting on an answer

      sammyanderic
      sammyanderic
      Participant
      February 24, 2016

      has this issue been fixed?

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      Anonymous
      March 28, 2014

      Same issue here.

      We've just moved from CS6 to CC and all our existing and new projects are suffering from this problem.

      We can work around it by exporting to a bitmap format like PNG but it's a massive step backwards for our workflow.

      Hopefully it's bug instead of removing functionality...

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        excited_Genie16B8
        Legend
        November 1, 2013

        Vector graphics are rasterized upon import, no way to avoid that.

        Try bringing in the graphic again, and replace the instances in the sequence with the new import.

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        TALLGRL29Author
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        November 1, 2013

        Thanks for taking the time to reply Jim. I've tried it without any improvement. It imports the EPS the same terrible way. Is this some new bug in CC versus CS6? The same graphic looks/behaves wonderfully in CS6. The problem is that once I've saved the project as CC I cannot open it with CS6. Any other ideas?

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        excited_Genie16B8
        Legend
        November 1, 2013

        I have not tested this work flow in CC yet.  The last project I had EPS for was done in CS6.

        You might try just exporting out of Illustrator as another format.  I like PNG if possible.

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