From: "Greg Balint" Received: from mail-qg0-f51.google.com ([209.85.192.51] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5494132 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:15:22 +0200 Received: by mail-qg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id q107so2209378qgd.24 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:15:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=9V16QIaTLC0iZbsK1DVH9u+7TEPWoDiTBh0tqHSLVkU=; b=OUkytHaTiU8YyTDV1QTi+3zGPJhlBUZia6MXAwYHsUJLqe/5VEL3MHgbsTSWClCWce qHSGDwKC5cXimWbFPBDkYDMpO3uoedULXLYsefEmN7q2EJCHeny3OiNJ7QBAG9URjTpR /lfcC7M3FrKBtmTY9bs33Uf0U5r8xZGak/UP7pnQzLw5ftumkaGLff3dgohVJoHWDecM 4FjYfFciU9ZNB+u0+P21k5+KhM+5CNQgbQ33gZroYQcxWRk24A++T5EVPYX2JoIalLf1 HtM3JnNyovB96AN0RDvPCy6HwIBSdNVgm/aGLCqGtDXOSmiobIy7fh3UxBP7DqW34GJ/ UFpw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.101.99 with SMTP id t90mr40423482qge.115.1401992120744; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.38.3 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:15:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:15:20 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Jittery PDF movement? To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 OH SNAP! This is what it was! I didn't even know that was an option in that dialog box... I figured maybe the "zoom quality" section of the regular settings area would have had it.. but this is EXACTLY what was going on.. Thanks a ton! On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Robert Kjettrup wrote: > 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 > > -- ///Greg Balint //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer /321.514.4839 delRAZOR.com/