From: "Robert Kjettrup" Received: from mail-vc0-f172.google.com ([209.85.220.172] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5494122 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:11:10 +0200 Received: by mail-vc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id lf12so1600127vcb.31 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=P6AvrVwGB00xNwNZgT2rEEt8R7rbl5hzJwcJU+aJGtM=; b=VUJybfXTF+raf83/eP3obqrgXbL3NsSe+CoBMAFmbBhCK28VlAbMhr0Ir1+tMCkT/0 0Qdx9O4vVBIc0AHU7LDP64VjfXS9+5hYArQjI20HOMg+79sAoz4cqtuWH4/VO0wbw34l BLZajHAYL6MMRb0dhcLD1fmr4YZn4eOcyVmOBsrtwsnVUFRB97MyoS4feja+u58eBZmb 0BtsnAsMl/He4fM8AMWO/0PN69R8Azifat2CP6tHpocJw5d2IRdLuBoTxsFfYdsVXGwM IZeJY95sjOy1a3GSlJi8Ajf9/rzSAFDhjHPDibhG6nOGtoOZbbN2BeU5DaMSGpQZQEsz x0Tw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkZMfD090f9um3pNUwGhYGgEA7sxTIkZwM6FHclqopdqQ2rqHMZLKmxzr8wHVRvLdl9EAx2 X-Received: by 10.52.92.100 with SMTP id cl4mr15191865vdb.48.1401991868626; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.150.167 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:10:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:10:48 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Jittery PDF movement? To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf3071c7f24ed1a304fb1aab40 --20cf3071c7f24ed1a304fb1aab40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 it sounds like you need to up the antialiasing on the vector file under the Interpret Footage -> More Options -> Antialiasing: More Accurate This will most likely take care of it, and i dont know why its not the default setting. I keep going into that dialog all the time for pdf and eps files. Especially if they contain raster images, they jump around like they are snapping to a pixelgrid and not properly resampel at subpixels. Robert 2014-06-05 17:22 GMT+02:00 Greg Balint : > Hey all, > > I've always seemed to run into this issue, and normally I had ways to > work around it. > > Basically I've got a bunch of PDF screen captures I've taken of a > website. I need to have them as vector / PDF because I'll be zooming > in and out a lot, and the text needs to remain crisp and clear. > > I've saved these PDFs using the Print >save as PDF function in Google > Chrome. > > The PDFs look fine and they do the job I need them to in AE, but my > problem comes in when I move and animate them around. The text seems > to stumble around in place a few pixels... that's the best way I can > put it.. as if they don't have a completely defined position and each > frame does a little math equation to figure out it's location, > resulting in the jittering of each letter when close up and moving > slowly across words, etc. Sometimes the comp will render 2 frames and > then the stumble in position will happen, then 3 more frames then > another stumble in position.. it's only a pixel or two difference, but > when every single letter is doing this, it looks horrible. > > I know AE is not a master at using PDF files, but can anyone tell me > what may be able to alleviate this? I tried bringing the PDF into > Illustrator, but it's missing fonts and the layout looks different > than how the PDF looks when opened in a PDF Reader or AE. > > Since I'm working with a lot of these, and I won't know exactly how > close I may need to get to each of the source files, it would be hard > to rasterize each one in Photoshop ahead of time and have the right > resolution available for AE when I'm building out my animation.. > > Any suggestions? > > > -- > ///Greg Balint > //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer > /321.514.4839 > delRAZOR.com/ > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > --20cf3071c7f24ed1a304fb1aab40 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
it sounds like you need to up the antialiasing on the vect= or file under the Interpret Footage -> More Options -> Antialiasing: = More Accurate

This will most likely take care of it, and= i dont know why its not the default setting. I keep going into that dialog= all the time for pdf and eps files. Especially if they contain raster imag= es, they jump around like they are snapping to a pixelgrid and not properly= resampel at subpixels.

Robert



2014-06-05 17:22 GM= T+02:00 Greg Balint <AE-List@media-motion.tv>:
Hey all,

I've always seemed to run into this issue, and normally I had ways to work around it.

Basically I've got a bunch of PDF screen captures I've taken of a website. =C2=A0I need to have them as vector / PDF because I'll be zoom= ing
in and out a lot, and the text needs to remain crisp and clear.

I've saved these PDFs using the Print >save as PDF function in Googl= e Chrome.

The PDFs look fine and they do the job I need them to in AE, but my
problem comes in when I move and animate them around. =C2=A0The text seems<= br> to stumble around in place a few pixels... that's the best way I can put it.. as if they don't have a completely defined position and each frame does a little math equation to figure out it's location,
resulting in the jittering of each letter when close up and moving
slowly across words, etc. Sometimes the comp will render 2 frames and
then the stumble in position will happen, then 3 more frames then
another stumble in position.. it's only a pixel or two difference, but<= br> when every single letter is doing this, it looks horrible.

I know AE is not a master at using PDF files, but can anyone tell me
what may be able to alleviate this? =C2=A0I tried bringing the PDF into
Illustrator, but it's missing fonts and the layout looks different
than how the PDF looks when opened in a PDF Reader or AE.

Since I'm working with a lot of these, and I won't know exactly how=
close I may need to get to each of the source files, it would be hard
to rasterize each one in Photoshop ahead of time and have the right
resolution available for AE when I'm building out my animation..

Any suggestions?


--
///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/

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