Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #51150
From: <adam@influxx.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] More Accurate option for Antialiasing for EPS/AI files
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:32:25 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
I don't recall the thread in question, but I just this week was wishing
for better anti-aliasing options in AE using text in 3D space. As Jayse
says, it becomes an aliased mess once in 3D space. The only way around it
I found was to add a 0.25px blur. Not ideal as the text then becomes a
little less than crisp.

If only there were some kind of AA option similar to what you see in C4D
(2x2, 4x4, 8x8 etc).

I added a request but thought it worth adding to the discussion here.





> I remember that too - and was SO excited - because taking ai files (such
> as
> a fake UI layout) with thin 1px to 4px horizontal lines and slightly
> tilting them in 3d space is a huge aliased mess in AE. It's something we
> did a lot of on 'Ender's Game' - and it drove us crazy.
>
> Unfortunately, the 'more accurate' switch didn't do anything to make the
> situation better in that case. Neither does the new CC antialiasing
> control. :-(
>
> But an improvement in that area would be hugely welcomed!! I'll file an
> FR.
>
> // jayse
>
> --------------------------------
> Jayse Hansen
> Fake UI Shizm for Film
> www.jayse.tv
> jayse@jayse.tv
> 702-321-3449
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> I recall a few months back that someone on this list had a problem with
>> "jittery" Illustrator assets in an After Effects animation, and that
>> problem was "fixed" by switching the Antialiasing option from Faster to
>> More Accurate in the EPS Options dialog box (accessed by clicking More
>> Options in the Interpret Footage dialog box).
>>
>> This is surprising to some of the folks who work on the code here at the
>> plabt, since that option should only help in cases in which gradients
>> are
>> being faked in an AI/EPS file in a way that occurred in such files from
>> 1997 and earlier.
>>
>> We'd really like to get a copy of any project (and relevant AI/EPS
>> footage) in which switching the option from Faster to More Accurate
>> helps.
>> If this option is doing anything useful for assets created this
>> millennium,
>> then it's a sign of a bug.
>>
>> So, if you _ever_ in the past decade have switched this option and found
>> it useful to do so, let us know.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> Todd Kopriva
>> After Effects quality engineering
>> kopriva@adobe.com
>> 206.675.7931
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
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