Ben Dansby
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Q: Fuzzy shapes

Is there any way to make shapes conform to the pixel grid? All my squares are fuzzy. See video here

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), Early 2008, 2.8 GHz, 10 GB RAM

Posted on Aug 31, 2012 9:30 PM

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Ben Dansby

Q: Fuzzy shapes

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  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Sep 2, 2012 12:55 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 12:55 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    From the Render menu, turn off Dynamic and switch to Best quality.

     

    If you're still having problems, you can fix the points of all shapes from the Inspector: Shapes > Geometry > Control Points and take off the decimal values for all of the points. (All those numbers are editable.)

     

    You might, in the long run, prefer to get used to having the resolution a little soft in order to retain a better playback framerate (Motion 5 often struggles being 32-bit all the time...) In FCPX, the quality is always best; otherwise, the quality only counts when you export a project (and you can set the Render settings from the export dialog.)

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 1:21 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:21 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    You have your render set to half or quater.

     

     

  • by Ben Dansby,

    Ben Dansby Ben Dansby Sep 2, 2012 10:08 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:08 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    Thanks for the suggestions, guys, but my render quality is set to best and and the resolution is full. Setting the position and point coordinates to full pixels didn't help either

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 10:16 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:16 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    What kind of Mac do you have... video card... how much ram? Have you tried ram preview?

     

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 11.15.07 AM.png

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Sep 2, 2012 10:23 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:23 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    Ben Dansby wrote:

    … All my squares are fuzzy.

     

    Your Project is NOT an interlaced format?

     

    And, just to mention it:

    Your form has NO Outline … ?

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 10:39 AM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:39 AM in response to Ben Dansby

    Good catch Karsten!

     

    If your using one of the SD settings (that is interlaced) you will get that fuzzy look even if you set field order to none and everything else to best... and ram preview.

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 11.33.21 AM.png

  • by Ben Dansby,

    Ben Dansby Ben Dansby Sep 2, 2012 12:10 PM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 12:10 PM in response to Ben Dansby

    My setup is: Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), Early 2008, 2.8 GHz, 10 GB RAM. Should be enough to handle some squares, no?

     

    My project is not interlaced, and it doesn't matter if I export or do a ram preview. I don't know guys, I make a brand new project, draw a square, and its edges are soft. i have no such issues in After Effects.

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 1:10 PM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:10 PM in response to Ben Dansby

    Need to know what graphic card your using.

     

    Go to Finder menu... Apple logo... About this Mac... Displays tab.

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 1.51.52 PM.png

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 1.54.07 PM.png

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 1.55.02 PM.png

    Cards that are supported http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664

  • by Ben Dansby,

    Ben Dansby Ben Dansby Sep 2, 2012 1:13 PM in response to David M Brewer
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:13 PM in response to David M Brewer

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 1.12.54 PM.png

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Ben Dansby

    Graphic card is ok...mmm. What happens if you export?

  • by Ben Dansby,

    Ben Dansby Ben Dansby Sep 2, 2012 1:23 PM in response to David M Brewer
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:23 PM in response to David M Brewer

    Exporting doesn't help. Here is my project: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3462104/flyout.zip

     

    Do the shapes have a hard edge for you? Or can you make them hard? This is not a huge deal, but I like my squares crisp Thanks for your help.

  • by David M Brewer,

    David M Brewer David M Brewer Sep 2, 2012 2:29 PM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 2:29 PM in response to Ben Dansby

    You canvas is 400x300, what your seeing is a low rez... can't fix that.

     

    Below 400x300 canvas...

    001p.png

    Below, when you blow up the cavas to look at the boxes this is what you see.

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-02 at 2.45.20 PM.png

    Below, boxes enlarge to fit in 1080p canvas.

     

    pop02.png

     

     

     

    For some reason I couldn't embed the 1080p video... Click on the the beloe link for video...

     

    http://youtu.be/bdQ0kSFbLpo?hd=1

  • by fox_m,

    fox_m fox_m Sep 2, 2012 2:52 PM in response to Ben Dansby
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    Sep 2, 2012 2:52 PM in response to Ben Dansby

    this project is so small it's hard to see on a 1920x1080 screen (400 x 300). If your canvas is viewing at > 150% so you can see what  you're doing, you have to expect blurred edges. Try changing your project to 1440 x 1080 [Select Project layer and in the Properties inspector, change width to 1440 height to 1080] and those rectangle edges sharpen right up.  Now, the only problem you'll have is with the cursor images being blown up.  I see at least one of them is from an Illustrator project ("regular selection normal.ai) You don't need to do anything with that one EXCEPT:

     

    Go to the Media tab

    Select that image

    In the Inspector > Media --- ***uncheck*** fixed resolution and that cursor will be ultra crisp as well.

     

    Export your project @ Current Settings (it will be 1440x1080 square pixel res) and use QT7Pro to resize to the destination you require or if you have Compressor, export using compressor.

     

    BTW -- Rectangle 3 (I think [I turned it off so I don't remember exactly]) has a Feather of 2px on it.

     

    HTH