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| 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 <AE-List@media-motion.tv> 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 <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. 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 <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > -- ///Greg Balint //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer /321.514.4839 delRAZOR.com/ |
